Miscellaneous

IPCPR 2019 will begin one month from today, exactly 31 days. Regular readers of this site will know that the next month will see hundreds…

Last month I had the pleasure of being on the Cigar Jukebox podcast. I had the pleasure of talking with Dave Burck about halfwheel, cigar ratings, Australian…

I wasn’t planning on doing this explainer type post, but given that I keep receiving text messages and emails about the subject, here we are….

And so another Festival del Habano has come and gone. In some aspects, my fourth trip to the tiny island of Cuba was not my…

Unfortunately, my final full day in Havana started much the same as the last day did: with me throwing up. I was still sick—albeit not…

As much as I would like to write that my fourth day in Cuba started the same as the others, that was not the case….

In case you missed it, I was exhausted pretty much all of Thursday. On that note, Friday didn’t start much better. That being said, I…

I woke up a bit later than normal on my third full day in Cuba—and by later, I mean 7 a.m.—but quickly got everything ready…

The good news is that I slept through my alarm without waking up Wednesday night, something that was a constant problem due to an air…

Like just about every morning in Havana, my second day started with the sound of barking dogs. Lots of barking dogs, most of which were…

While I suppose it will be like this all week, Wednesday started far too early for my tastes. At 7:15 a.m. I dragged myself out…