WHERE has been the best place?...

[Robusto]

WHERE has been the best place you've smoked a cigar?

I'm caught between two great places and memories.

The first is on the terrasse de cafe of a number of great cafes on the Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence in southern France. Sultry heat and crashing snap-storms. Great to smoke through under the cafe overhangs.

Needless to say, the sight-seeing was first class!

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The other memory is of lighting up an impressive Montecristo (I bought a box of 25 for NYC and flew them over from Gatwick lol) and walking around central New York - Times Square, Broadway - with the cowboy hat on that I'd just bought, and feeling as tall as the Empire State Building, and being completely relaxed and blissfully happy.

It felt great to puff cigars around New York!

I loved New York, and I went to a gig on Times Square at the MTV studios by one of the funkiest groups I've ever seen. What a gig!

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The other locations are hot and private.

Anyone else?...

[Drewmidorn]

Enjoyed a fair few stogies on the front in Cannes over the years..always nice to watch the ladies sauntering by.

I really enjoyed smoking by the pool at the Aviation club in Dubai...not really sure why, just remember it being the least rushed I've ever been. We landed and had a whole day and night off before sound checking the next day so there really was nothing much to do (I haven't been on holiday for about 15 years so its as near as I've got. lol)

The Grand Havana Room New York used to be very cool..not sure if it still is as I haven't lived there for ages.

And I used to really enjoy the Casa Del Habano in Wardour street before they sectioned off the bar. I used to go in with a pad and pencil and write. The discussions I used to eaves drop on went from the sublime to the ridiculous.

[Montesmoke]

Has to be Cuba, Having a Montecristo No1 & A Mojito in a bar in Havana square.

[RhiannonBW]

I was thinking about all the beautiful places I've smoked a cigar, and then I remembered Christmas last year, sitting in front of the fire with my husband, watching some schmaltzy Christmas film, drinking some very decent champagne, after some great home-cooked food, and I recall the feeling of complete and utter contentment . . . . . definitely the best place I have ever smoked a cigar.

Of course, the Hemingway Bar comes close!

Rhiannon

[Willie1]

That's a very nice post Rhiannon

Sometimes the simple comforts of home, can easily outweigh all the many various fancy and somewhat exotic locations to the enjoyment of a good cigar

The only times I've smoked a cigar is either at home or being in the pool hall, (Before the smoking ban, of course).

I'd be happier enjoying a fine cigar whilst being in the company of my other half, than being at some exotic location because I believe that the simple comforts of home, can make the enjoyment of a fine cigar much more comforting and relaxing

The TV may be crap, but good company and a good cigar is good enough for me

Willie

[Robusto]

Have to agree with the home comforts thing completely, though I admit I've overdone it with the plentiful good food and drink and great cigar on top at Christmas and suffered the inevitable bounce-back!

I pace myself far better these days with all sources of pleasure.

[Willie1]

Sounds like the hangovers from hell

I gree that it's better to enjoy lifes little luxuries at a steady and easy pace, as the slower pace makes life's luxuries more enjoyable

Willie