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Monte Esp1, NNSA VC2 (NOV ‘96).

Saturday tasting session underway.

CoLa

2003 Vegas Robaina 5 Aniversario Humidor Unicos Special 5th Anniversary band. Numbered humidor of 100 cigars (500 produced). A 2003 release. Intended to be released in 2002. s'mores, black cherry, peanut butter

Cohiba Siglo IV - EOT Sep 2015

Enjoyed this Allones Extra from 2011

A Super Partagas today With a little age, this one always delivers 👌

Cracking into a 2013 box of JL Sn2

H.Upmann Petit Coronas - MEG Oct 2015

Having an Esmeralda while my wife runs a half marathon in Central Park.

My late afternoon Cigar.

2016 PLPC on a beauty of a day! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In all its glory. Check these Solomones out. Unbelievable!

Sunday Cigar

Partners dinner. Hoyo DC for main and a SC El Principe for dessert.

Delightful Sunday lunchtime stick whilst watching the Bells Beach surf classic.

Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure de Luxe LCDH (BRM AGO22).

Punch Punch (SOM ABR16).

Not sure why this one gets so much loathing. Id say the blend is a cousin to partagas d4. Punch SdP

Have a great week all 🥂

HUHC Jun 21 REM (Orange Dot) A good weekend to you all 👍

HF 898 - LMB FEB 18 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Diplomáticos Colección Privada II (Ex. España 2020)

2016 Double Eddy from our host

Thursday night cigars 01' Sancho Panza Belicosos Cocoa, Coffee & cream, Toast 05' Cohiba Siglo I Citrus, Vanilla, Sweetgrass Blah Ok Good Tasty Heavenly

Another fabulous Mag 50 MOA 2009

Sancho Panza Non Plus

Sunshine & a Siglo II. Afternoon delight 🚀

Perhaps this topic has come a week late (i.e As Easter came and passed quite late this year) but it's not quite what you think (it is). When someone mentions this city nowadays invariably the place where Jesus came from comes to mind. More importantly, it was never a place of great renown and it remains so to this day. Nathaniel, one of the twelve disciples famously said when told that Jesus came from there, "can anything good come out of Nazareth?" That's because it's the last place you'd think anyone making claims about themselves would come from. To this day, it is the only city in Israel with a majority-Arab population. Then again, history is replete with stories of people coming from unlikely origins. If it were possible to tell Socrates (and perhaps Plato) that a fellow from Macedonia named Alexander would soon come along and subdue the great Persian Empire, they would have laughed at you for merely mentioning such a thing. In Ancient Greece, anyone of note came from Athens, Sparta or Thebes. And then along came Aristotle to take up a tutoring gig in the North of Greece for Philip II. Or how about telling the Sun King, Louis XIV at the beginning of the 18th century that within a hundred years his royal dynasty will be usurped by a great military general from the island of Corsica? "Impossible!" would be his reply, I'd say. I recently changed my workplace after fourteen years at the same school. The new school was a little closer to my home but after 12 months the school principal was told that 2 teachers would need to self-nominate to transfer out as the school had dropped in student numbers. One teacher elected to retire and I nominated myself, on behalf of my colleagues, to leave for two reasons as, one; I was the last person to come to the school and two; I was the best candidate to make the change as I had just gone through the process. I will tell you that this act of selflessness on behalf of preventing the boss forcing someone to move against their volition was greatly respected and admired by my colleagues (and my principal). Yet, the story doesn't end there. What school was I to go to? Well remember Nazareth, the city of little renown? Well, that sums up my first non-descript school I went to when I was a kid. You see, I grew up in Punchbowl in Sydney and attended the local public school in 1977. In April 1978, I left when my parents moved to another suburb in Sydney. I remember thinking how glad I was to get out of there...I never seemed to fit into the school system there. Fast forward to 2025 and I was waiting news for my new transfer. I was told that I would be placed in a school within an hour's drive of my home. As there are 1392 public schools (at primary level) in Sydney, that eliminated 699 of them. In March, I was told that the school I would be transferred to would be...PUNCHBOWL! Yes, that's a 1 in 693 chance. I seriously thought that God was playing a joke on me! After I visited the school in March, I was astounded to learn that a lot of buildings had changed, of course, but my old wooden demountable classroom, the last left standing, was still there! I couldn't believe it! But in all seriousness, today was my first day working there and I'm glad my life has gone 'full circle'. I was meant to end up there and help these kids of a lower socio-economic community in their learning. Does anything good come out of Nazareth? Or even Punchbowl? Maybe, maybe just me!

Monte kick this weekend with some age. All delicious.

On a small Nudies kick. Churchill and Lancero. Sunset Monte 3

Weekend smoking...

1926 Maduro.Earthy bugger. Naturals similar to a wide Edmundo I had yesterday.In retreat

Siglo VI EPO MAR 24

Connoisseur A with nice bit of age on it believe it came from 2017 box or 2018 can’t remember. I am pairing it with a watermelon smoothie and what a great combo! Really knocking my socks off with this one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hoyo de Monterrey Le Hoyo de Rio Seco (GEL FEB22).

C&C time. Lusi (2016) from our gracious host.

Quai d'Orsay No.52 - GRB May 2024

C&C time. Mag 56 jar from our gracious host.

Monte Petit Edmundo 2016. A gorgeous little smoke.

Vegas Robaina Famosos These are really growing on me... Prune-y (I think I'll change this wording to Dr. Pepper from now on @Havanaaddict🫡)

Past few night's smokes. All from our gracious host.

1990 Monte Especial No 2.

Was gifted this cigar by a fellow BOTL. Crowned Heads Mil Dias Edmundo.

Draft night smokes. Tabernacle broadleaf torpedo and Illusione MJ12.

These QD52’s from our host sure do deliver.