that smoking isn’t really conducive to your health, gentlemen smoked pipes. And very elaborate pipes indeed.

Last week we were at the UNESCO heritage site of the Abbey of Lorsch. There is a small museum close by and we had a look. A small section is concerned with the abbey, the rest of the building houses Germany’s largest tobacco museum. The combination may be unusual but not the location: Lorsch has been a tobacco growing town for three centuries.

Monday Portrait

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