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Originally posted by Gary
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Right, just back (well an hour or so ago to be honest) from Hunters & Frankau's first Cigar and Cognac evening in Ireland and have to say it was a bloody good night! My initial worries (after seeing some photo's of other evenings across the water on the H&F website) of an evening with wanabee toff's who wouldn't know a cigar from a Mars bar could not have been further from the truth!
Originally only set for a maximum of 20 people, I think about 17 tickets were sold which was good I thought seeing it's a first of it's kind over here and I didn't see any advertising of the event bar what was on the H&F site. There was a nice mix of people there, young and old, first time cigar smokers and more experienced ones too, although I got the impression I was a bit more knowledgable about cigar smoking than most (hope that doesn't sound like me blowing my own trumpet) apart obviously from Patrick Knowles, the rep from H&F who led us through the evening and who was excellent too, very knowledgable although I was able to help him out with one or two points which I was only too happy to do. Had good conversations throughout the night with Patrick and he very kindly presented me with a small cigar book[ATTACH]308[/ATTACH] which I thought was very kind!
As stated in one of the posts above the ticket was ?10 and for that we enjoyed 1 x San Cristobal El Principe, 1 x Montecristo No4 and 2-3 glasses of lovely cognac, excellent value I thought! All in all the night was a great success and Patrick and the manager of Lavery's bar (who was very positive about the whole evening) said there would definately be more events, although probably when the better weather comes back again
. Just on another note it was good to meet up with Gabriel (known on here as Emeraldisle) and be able to put a face to the name and hopefully when the next H&F night rolls around in Belfast maybe any other forum members from this side of the sea might want to come too.
Originally only set for a maximum of 20 people, I think about 17 tickets were sold which was good I thought seeing it's a first of it's kind over here and I didn't see any advertising of the event bar what was on the H&F site. There was a nice mix of people there, young and old, first time cigar smokers and more experienced ones too, although I got the impression I was a bit more knowledgable about cigar smoking than most (hope that doesn't sound like me blowing my own trumpet) apart obviously from Patrick Knowles, the rep from H&F who led us through the evening and who was excellent too, very knowledgable although I was able to help him out with one or two points which I was only too happy to do. Had good conversations throughout the night with Patrick and he very kindly presented me with a small cigar book[ATTACH]308[/ATTACH] which I thought was very kind!
As stated in one of the posts above the ticket was ?10 and for that we enjoyed 1 x San Cristobal El Principe, 1 x Montecristo No4 and 2-3 glasses of lovely cognac, excellent value I thought! All in all the night was a great success and Patrick and the manager of Lavery's bar (who was very positive about the whole evening) said there would definately be more events, although probably when the better weather comes back again
. Just on another note it was good to meet up with Gabriel (known on here as Emeraldisle) and be able to put a face to the name and hopefully when the next H&F night rolls around in Belfast maybe any other forum members from this side of the sea might want to come too.Wildwood (a long way from any cigar action)
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