WHERE is the most memorable place you have smoked a cigar?

[Robusto]

New York.
Walking the streets below the massive skyscrapers.
Magic and quite unforgettable for this Englishman.
Deleted the pictures- idiot - but fully intend to go back in the future.

[Deano]

Cuba. Hotle Parque Central, http://www.hotelparquecentral.com/, in the middle Of Havana over looking the The Capitol building and the slums in one go.

[Deano]

That picture of me is where u get the view of that fourth pic.

Some more:

[Robusto]

That's the very same hotel in Havana me and the family will be staying in in October, mate! Looks sublime!

Am I right - something in a previous post - that that was the first cigar you ever smoked?

[Deano]

Not really, had many NC from my Dad etc. Probably first real Cuban. All really started from that one though. 1/2 months later this site was set up...

[Deano]

Glad you're staying there, I did recommend it. Best hotel in Havana mate. Non-government owned. Nice Cigar shop too, with a smoking area in it with leather seats, tv etc. It's where I bought my cigars in the end. There's a cigar factory literally 150 yards away too.

[cj121]

I guess mine would have to be sipping caparinhas in the garden at the Hotel Nationale in Havana, watching the sun set over the water. The wife and I treated ourselves to a night there during our belated honeymoon in January.

[Robusto]

Great, cj! Seems like Havana is pretty memorable for this!
Any snaps?

[cj121]

In relation to the sunset, just got this crappy one off the 'phone, but lots of others which I will reduce and post a few up Bryan.

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[Robusto]

Nice one!

[cj121]

One of the Nationale and one of me and one of local girls who cruise for pictures. It was interesting as there are girls/women that dress up in old traditional attire and pester for pictures. This woman just plonked herself down in the relative shade, I popped over and we spoke about the 'touristy' aspects of hassling people for photos: she said "...honey, I just wait for them to come to me" I liked her style

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[cj121]

Cuba. Hotle Parque Central, http://www.hotelparquecentral.com/, in the middle Of Havana over looking the The Capitol building and the slums in one go.

Some great shots there Deano, I wish I'd have had the inkling to take some shots of sticks. TBH, I didn't know about my hobby to be at that point. Did you find the decent hotels had probably some of the cheapest prices? I bought a box of 10 RyJ No.2 for about ?27, crazy.

[Robusto]

I bought a box of 10 RyJ No.2 for about ?27, crazy.

Can't wait to go!

I wondered if the women hovered for snaps!

[Deano]

I have a pic of one of those women too, they do tend to - a couple outside the Parque Central in the park. Their seem to be some debates etc in the square too, I'd stay clear tbh, I think they're political, and there's police with machine guns walking about heh.

[cj121]

I bought a box of 10 RyJ No.2 for about ?27, crazy.

Can't wait to go!

I wondered if the women hovered for snaps!

Make sure you take advantage Bryan. If I had my time again, with the increased experience I've picked up from the forum, it'd be puro central coming through.