Hello to you all,
After what now seems like years of looking in on this forum and far too many more mostly happy years of pipe smoking I decided to formalise my curiosity and request membership. Now of an age when time keeping is far less important to me than it once was my first real smoke of a pipe was in 1958 aged eight which I enjoyed together with a half pint of warm beer in an English country public house courtesy of my 1880 born pipe smoking Grandfather, a tough but kindly old soldier sailor almost rich man who was of the opinion that the rules and niceties of society only applied to those who concerned themselves with such things.
Married to a Cypriot I'm British and have lived and worked out of the lovely but sometimes troubled island of Cyprus, where the Cypriot variety of Latakia tobacco supposedly still comes from, for seventeen years although our marriage and my association with the island goes back almost five decades to a time when it was possible to get lost in the Karpas peninsular tobacco plantations of northern Cyprus and only find you're way out by stumbling upon a Latakia smoke house and getting directions in Greek or Turkish back to what then passed for a main road after first sitting down with the smoke house boss and his employees for a Turkish coffee and a cigarette, both of which might today be classed as dangerous substances.
Best Regards
Paul
After what now seems like years of looking in on this forum and far too many more mostly happy years of pipe smoking I decided to formalise my curiosity and request membership. Now of an age when time keeping is far less important to me than it once was my first real smoke of a pipe was in 1958 aged eight which I enjoyed together with a half pint of warm beer in an English country public house courtesy of my 1880 born pipe smoking Grandfather, a tough but kindly old soldier sailor almost rich man who was of the opinion that the rules and niceties of society only applied to those who concerned themselves with such things.
Married to a Cypriot I'm British and have lived and worked out of the lovely but sometimes troubled island of Cyprus, where the Cypriot variety of Latakia tobacco supposedly still comes from, for seventeen years although our marriage and my association with the island goes back almost five decades to a time when it was possible to get lost in the Karpas peninsular tobacco plantations of northern Cyprus and only find you're way out by stumbling upon a Latakia smoke house and getting directions in Greek or Turkish back to what then passed for a main road after first sitting down with the smoke house boss and his employees for a Turkish coffee and a cigarette, both of which might today be classed as dangerous substances.
Best Regards
Paul
