Making a cigar, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, Caribbean, North America
George Town, Grand Cayman, is the capital of the Cayman Islands, in the British West Indies. The city has a population of 27,704 as of 2010 and is the largest city on Grand Cayman. George Town is the heart of the Cayman Islands financial industry, there are close to 600 Bank and Trust companies in the Cayman Islands. The city is the largest (by population) of all settlements in the British Overseas Territories. The Caymanian government offices are located in George Town. These offices include the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands, the Court Houses and the Government Administration Building. The Government Administration Building houses the offices of the Premier and other members of Cabinet, the Deputy Governor and his staff as well as other elected officials and civil servants. The former Old Courts Building located at the corner of Shedden Road and Harbour Drive is now the National Museum of Grand Cayman. The building was built more than 150 years ago and has served the Caymanian government not only as a court building but as a jail and the island's first official Post Office. George Town's city limits extend from the east at the edge of the South Shore District, north just beyond Owen Roberts International Airport, south to Hog Sty Bay and west to Seven Mile Beach and the West Bay District. George Town's famous Seven Mile Beach is a long crescent of coral-sand beach extending up to the West Bay region of Grand Cayman and is the most popular and populated area for tourists on the island.
Restaurants in Cayman: Bar Crudo & Stogies
If you're looking for one of the best spots for Happy Hour with a killer ocean view, make Bar Crudo in George Town your next stop!
Looking for a cigar lounge in town? Check out Stogies next door for a great cocktail and a place to enjoy a nice cigar.
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WRAP Hurricane Gustav hits Caymans; Mexico; Cuba
Havana, Cuba - 30 August 2008
1. Hurricane Gustave hitting Old Havana, Morro castle in the background
2. Various of city centre flooded, Cathedral and Plaza de Armas
3. Tracking shot of road towards Pinar del Rio, fallen trees
4. Bus passing through road with fallen trees
5. Wide of palm trees swaying in the wind
6. Two palm trees swaying on beach
7. Wide of palm trees swaying
8. Fallen road sign on side of road
9. Tracking shot of road full of fallen branches
10. Wide of Malecon boulevard and buildings at seaside under rain
11. Waves hitting bank
12. Army trucks going towards Pinar del Rio
13. Man in horse cart holding plastic sheet to protect himself from rain
Georgetown, Cayman Islands - 30 August 2008
14. Waves hitting port
15. Man on bike watching waves
16. Various of security tape stopping people approaching coast
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eziathamae Bodden, Georgetown resident:
Well the storm, thank God it wasn't any worse. Thinking back about four years ago, when Ivan hit - this is nothing to compare with Ivan.
18. Various of waiter cleaning tables
19. Various of men fixing electrical lines
Cancun, Mexico - 30 August 2008
20. Wide of para-glider in sky
21. Top shot of people in sea
22. Mid of red flag warning of strong currents and waves
23. Wide top shot of coast line
STORYLINE:
Gustav howled into Cuba's Isla de Juventud as a monstrous Category Four hurricane on Saturday while both Cubans and US citizens scrambled to flee the path of the fast-growing storm.
Forecasters said Gustav was just short of becoming a top-scale Category Five hurricane as it powered its way toward mainland Cuba, where authorities were hurriedly evacuating more than 240-thousand people from the nation's tobacco-rich western tip.
The hurricane was projected to plough into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico at full force on Sunday, and reach the US coast on Monday afternoon.
A hurricane watch was issued from Texas east to Florida, an area that includes New Orleans, which Hurricane Katrina devastated in 2005.
Gustav already has killed 81 people by triggering floods and landslides in other Caribbean nations.
The storm knocked power out in many parts of Cuba's capital, Havana, as shrieking winds blasted sheets of rain sideways though the streets and whipped angry waves against the famed seaside Malecon boulevard.
Fallen tree branches and large chunks of muddy earth littered crowded roads.
The US National Hurricane Centre said Gustav had sustained winds of 150 miles per hour (240 kilometres per hour) - with higher gusts - as the heart of the storm began hitting Cuba's outlying island province of Isla de Juventud, where officials cut power to many areas.
A Category Five hurricane has winds above 155 miles per hour (249 kilometres per hour).
The government said it had evacuated some 190-thousand people from low-lying parts of westernmost Cuba, Pinar del Rio province, where the tobacco for the island's famed cigars is grown.
Officials reported that 50-thousand people had been moved to higher ground farther east.
Cuba grounded all domestic flights and halted all buses and trains to and from Havana, where some shuttered stores had hand-scrawled closed for evacuation signs plastered to their doors.
Authorities boarded up banks, restaurants and hotels, and residents nailed bits of plywood to the windows and doors of their houses and apartments.
In tourist-friendly Old Havana, heavy winds and rain battered crumbling historic buildings.
There were no immediate reports of major damage, but a scaffolding erected against a building adjacent to the Plaza de Armas was
leaning at a dangerous angle.
Gustav rolled over the Cayman Islands on Friday with fierce winds that tore down trees and power lines.
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Making cigars old school
Havana Special 3 - View Of The City
great view of the city from the hotel Calle Obispo saying funny ass shit & jokes. (Spanish: La Habana (help·info), Spanish pronunciation: [la aˈβana], officially Ciudad de La Habana,[3] is the capital city, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city is one of the 15 Cuban provinces. The city/province has 2.1 million inhabitants, the largest city in Cuba and the second largest in the Caribbean region, after Santo Domingo.[4] The city extends mostly westward and southward from the bay, which is entered through a narrow inlet and which divides into three main harbours: Marimelena, Guanabacoa, and Atarés. The sluggish Almendares River traverses the city from south to north, entering the Straits of Florida a few miles west of the bay. King Philip II of Spain granted Havana the title of City in 1592 and a royal decree in 1634 recognized its importance by officially designating it the Key to the New World and Rampart of the West Indies. Havana's coat of arms carries this inscription. The Spaniards began building fortifications, and in 1553 they transferred the governor's residence to Havana from Santiago de Cuba on the eastern end of the island, thus making Havana the de facto capital. The importance of harbour fortifications was early recognized as English, French, and Dutch sea marauders attacked the city in the 16th century. The sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana's harbor in 1898 was the immediate cause of the Spanish-American War. Present day Havana is the center of the Cuban government, and various ministries and headquarters of businesses are based there. The current Havana area and its natural bay were first visited by Europeans during Sebastián de Ocampo's circumnavigation of the island in 1509. Shortly thereafter, in 1510, the first Spanish colonists arrived from Hispaniola and began the conquest of Cuba. Conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded Havana on August 25, 1515, on the southern coast of the island, near the present town of Batabanó, Cuba Surgidero de Batabanó. Between 1514 and 1519, the city had at least two different establishments. All attempts to found a city on Cuba's south coast failed. The city's location was adjacent to a superb harbor at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, and with easy access to the Gulf Stream, the main ocean current that navigators followed when traveling from the Americas to Europe. This location led to Havana's early development as the principal port of Spain's New World colonies. An early map of Cuba drawn in 1514 places the town at the mouth of the River Onicaxinal, also on the south coast of Cuba. Another establishment was La Chorrera, today in the neighborhood of Puentes Grandes, next to the Almendares River.
Buying Cuban Cigars Online, Hoyo De Monterrey Epicure No.2
Buying Cuban Cigars online is fun!!!
My second order of Cuban Cigars, Hoyo De Monterrey Epicure No. 2 .
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Cigar making in Cuba
An old lady retired from a cigar factory is authorized to make cigars on her own
Cigar Town, USA
A video shot at a small cigar factory at Miami's famous 8th St. In La Calle Ocho is where most of Cuban exiles choose to have their factories or at least a token front when dealing with cigars. Tobacco is planted the world over and cigars are rolled everywhere that plant is harvested but for reasons I'm sure many people are unaware of, Cuba has an overwhelming preponderance when it comes to tobacco and particularly cigar's topmost quality. Connoisseurs say the tobacco from this island is the best there is and name the plants, soil and microclimate as the main reasons. But debatable as these may be there is little doubt on who makes the best cigars in America. Another elusive dictum is why Cubans choose Miami as their Cosa Nostra. It can't be just geographical proximity (the city of Key West is about 130 miles closer). But the thing is this is the city where you can find the best Cuban made cigars, and in all of Miami, in La Ocho is where you find them en masse.
I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Mrs. Sandy Cobas, owner of El Titán de Bronze for so graciously allowing me to invade her factory and so patiently field my obnoxious questioning. I would also like to thank all of her generous staff that unflinchingly went around their normal business with a short focal lens camera over their heads, arms and shoulders and a blinding LED light shinning on their eyes. Special thanks to Don José Paredes for taking so much time to explain me the ins and outs of the shop. Thanks also to Luis Gallardo, Pedro Vázquez, Orlando Guerra, Juan Manuel Díaz and Martica Payán whom make the magic happen. Last but not least, thanks to my dear brother-in-law, Laurent Lecuyer, for so disinterestedly providing me with the better 50% of this film in the form of the gorgeous score that is a work in progress of his, soon to appear in a new album by a famous Venezuelan Jazz singer.
Shot mostly with available light on a Canon EOS 60D, EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8, Juiced Link DT 454, Audio-Technica AT875R's, LitePanels MicroPro LED light, Switronix Power Base 70, 7 Lilliput LCD monitor, Handy Base X support rig, Manfrotto 501 HDV head and 055XB tripod.
How to make a cigar, Cuban style
Cuban making a cigar in his factory in Little Havana, Miami, Florida.
Cuban Cigar Rolling Applying the wrapper
Cuban Master Roller Armando De Armas of Bobalu Cigar Co. demonstrates how to properly wrap and finish a cigar. Watch our live cigar roller web cam at
Hand Rolled Cigar Demonstration
A professional cigar roller demonstrates how he puts the finishing wraps on a great cigar.
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A private person (not a cigar factory) making cigars just for us
30+ years of rolling cigars in New Orleans, this is NOT sped up, this guy is amazing!
Look at how fast he rolls them, it's amazing
Petit Torpedo Cigars
New Fresh rolled size from Cigar Masters. Enjoy the new Petit Torpedo exclusively in Boston this week. They are limited but will return! Get them while you can. They are creamy with hints of coffee and a leathery aftertaste. Excellent 25 min smoke from Osmany. - created at
Cigar making
Cigar making demo in Trindad, Cuba
Cuban Cigar Rolling
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Suliere: Cuba and the Ragged Islands - Extended Trailer
A 3-part film series by Paul and Leslie Burgess
Sail with Paul and Leslie aboard Suliere, their 50 foot ocean-going catamaran as they voyage to Cuba's Hemingway Marina, tour old Havana and the Cuban countryside, then sail on to the remote Ragged Islands of the Bahamas.
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