Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to Havana we go...

AS usual, I've left everything far too late.

I haven't packed a thing, not sure what I'm taking and I have an awful lot of work to do before I depart; but the flipside of that coin is, I'm flying out to Havana tomorrow lunchtime for a whistlestop tour of the capital taking in the Partagas Festival, the city's best cigar shops, bars, music and atmosphere. If I can squeeze it in, I'll also be jumping into an old Buick and cruising down to the sacred Vuelta Abajo to check out this year's crops in the plantations.

Follow @MontyCristo1 on Twitter and keep your eye on this blog over the next few days. If I can get a reliable enough internet signal(!) I'll be blogging words and pics of the trip to give you a little taster of this Caribbean cigar Mecca and the amazing things it has to offer lovers of the leaf.

I'll smoke one for you.

M.