...and another thing...
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER (did I say NEVER!) store flavored cigars with REAL cigars. The flavors will infuse your other cigars and ruin them. My preferred method for storing flavored cigars is to leave them outside in the back yard (garden for those across the pond) until they disintegrate or the dog gets them then chuck 'em, but that' just me.
Definately glad I asked, thanks. I've been doing pretty much what you suggested regarding the smoking side of things after I read up a little on the web.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shelby07
I gave a coffin with 2 in it to my dad (he's thinking of selling his after learning the rarity to buy some rare parakeets from Belgium instead with the proceeds, whatever floats your boat eh!) but I still have 4 here in 2 coffins to cherish and eventually smoke...like when the kids leave home :smiley17: :smiley41:
Thanks again, Carl.
I passed my local store today and popped in and bought a Bolivar and an El Rey Del Mundo to try next, this is going to be an expensive hobby!
My dad rang me tonight to tell me of his near death experience he had earlier today...
He's been reading a fell-walkers guide (fells are like mountains; but less) to the Lake District in Cumbria near where we live, and the author of the book (re-print I assume) had his ashes spread at a particular place and my dad thought "Wow, this must be some place if he had his ashes spread there!"
He's recently retired and loving it at 57 and off he set with his little Jack Russel dog called PIP to get to the top, where after reaching the summit, is a gentler decent on the way down the other side.
After 900ft of very steep climbing the ground was starting to slip away under his feet and he thought it was best to get up to the summit and go down the other side of the fell, rather than go back down the way he'd came due to the ground giving way and the steepness of the climb. He's done a lot of fell walking but was surprised at the intensity of it all the same.
Right at the very top last 20ft or so before the summit, there are large man-size slate-like steps and he had to pop PIP onto what appeared to be the last ledge whilst he pulled himself up.
Just as he hauled his ass up he seen a Ram charging at them both (rams are like a sheep but a whole lot meaner)...he grabbed PIP as quickly as he could and the ram went barreling over the top of them onto a ledge below and luckily couldn't get back up to them.
As he said, if it had hit him they'd have been pushed so far back they'd have fallen far enough for them to have both died for sure.
Apart from saying "Man, that's friggin nuts" the only words I could muster were.......
"I'd have lit one of those cigars as soon as I got back home!" :smiley2:
Welcome from further south
Thanks again for everyone's help on cigars.
I've got really into them so far. I've tried H. Upman, Dunhill, Bolivar, Luiz Martinez, Monte Cristo, El Rey Del Mundo and I've got my eye on pretty much every brand they stock in my local tobacconists. I also rummaged out a cigar a friend gave me a couple of years ago that I forgot about called Backgammon that was tubed and for appearing to be one of the lesser expensive brands it was like smoking heaven itself...
I'm going to try them all at my leisure to see what I think is best before I go investing in heavy numbers but I'm hooked so far. Thanks again folks. :smiley41:
Cuaba, Romeo Y Julieta, Punch, Cohiba also all under the belt and fully appreciated. In fact the one thing that has really struck me (that never did about cigars until my friend gave me the DC's and I looked into them etc) is that it's the appreciation that makes each draw/ cigar memorable and worthwhile.Quote:
Originally Posted by dentonparrots
The same friend has incredibly gave me a full box of 25 of the Don Candido No 502's shown here with a coffin of the 501's.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/260...502croplr0.jpg
If you think they look good, you want to smell them! It's like having the worlds best cake in front of you and knowing you can't eat it....well, I could, but would you? It would be sacrilege and I'd never forgive myself:smiley13:.
From the 1st round of testers that I've smoked so forr, the Romeo's Carona's have proven to be my favourites; they're like smoking chocolate. The Punch Petit Punch was nice and creamy all the same...but the Bolivar's heavyness dragged me in, but then the Cohiba was good and I enjoyed the lightness of the Upman. Man, it's tough having choices!
The same friend is looking to possibly sell 4 full boxes of the 502's (in 25's) and 2 of them still have their seals intact and unbroken, also he'll possibly be parting with a few of the boxes of 501's in their double coffins. I've contacted a London based cigar store who is hopefully holding a Cuban Dunhill auction in Sepetember if anyone is interested as I think that is where he'll be selling them through.