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A
few days after returning from the Festival in Havana, I received a call
from Switzerland.
Who is disturbing
my well deserved Sunday rest ?
Boss Hogg
was tired of skiing at Grindelwald and on his way up the Rhine River by
train to Düsseldorf.
Could he
stop somewhere near and have a cigar with me ?
Sure
thing.
We met in
Mainz, about 20 minutes from the village I live and had 2 hours of chat,
food and cigars.
I had reserved
a table at “Besitos”, a Spanish Tapas Bar and Restaurant across from the
Mainz Railway Station and we enjoyed some “quality cigar time “ together.
Of course,
as I had just returned from the Festival, I had to personally show him
a few beauties fresh off my Havana bag.
Like the
RyJ Short Churchill and the SCdLH Rodolfo.
Just to have
him see the cigars in live colour.
Checking Cigars
Of
course being a law abiding US citizen, he did not touch them, he only
admired the Tubo ................ :-))
Smoking 'em
I also presented
him with the original Invitation to the Opening Gala and a Brochure on
the National Ballett.
We
started with a 2001 RASCC that was too tight, but after the late lunch
( he had had nothing to eat in the Swiss train – and that was a 7 hr ride
!! ) I offered him a fresh PSD4 that he seemed to enjoy.
Enjoying the Break
He was very
kind offering me a beautiful pig-tailed Lady by the name of Trinidad and
an Ashton VSG that I smoked that same evening at my local Pub.
Great &
spicy cigar, beautiful dark wrapper - my first non-Cuban in 10 days !
It was our
first personal meeting – he had e-mailed me and I had contacted him from
Philadelphia during my last flight.
We share
some things – he has lived near Madrid in a Village where I went to school
as a kid, his Spanish is excellent and almost better than mine.
It was a
pleasure having him here, smoking with me after having met on CW and kept
in touch by mail, and I guess it won’t be his last time around.
Only regret
was, that it was too short.
Bienvenido
!
Copyright © Ninos
Flying Cigar 03-2006
A
handful of cigars ......
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