Fountain pen blog

Well, that’s a wrap for this year’s Pelikan Hub.

First, let me say that this post will not tell a heroic story of me nursing a sixty year old pen back to its former glory.

It has been a while since the last of my posts in this series of round-ups.

This blog has typically been about fountain pens, as the name suggests.

Following on immediately from our time in Albania, we flew to Naples to take a two hour ferry ride to Amalfi.

I have just returned from a wonderful if rather busy two-part holiday, starting in Albania and continuing in Italy.

Inky Pursuits is my sporadic series of monthly round-ups, featuring snippets of my stationery news.

This will be a shorter-than-usual post, but the title seemed too good to waste.

At our recent monthly pen club in London, my latest purchase drew quite a few admiring glances.

While visiting Hampstead recently, I sauntered into Rymans to look at their fountain pen display shelf and see if there was anything new or on offer.

I noticed recently, a glaring omission in my Index of Pen Posts: more than 9 years into this blog, I had yet to write a post about the Parker 51.

On Sunday, 1 March 2026 the London Spring Pen Show was held, once again at the Novotel London West, Hammersmith.