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Pen Shops In Portugal


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I will be heading to Portugal for a couple of weeks visiting Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra, and a range of other locations and I was wondering if anyone could recomend pen shops worth checking out. I have gone through the archives and cannot seem to find anything from within the last five years or so regarding this.

 

The only place I could find mentioned is "Tabacaria Rocio Ida" in Lisbon. My wife bought one in Coimbra on a previous trip but cannot remember the name of the shope.

 

Any thoughts would be great!

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It has been awhile since I have been on the site and I just discovered I did not follow up on my return trip from Portugal. I was not able to get to the stores cited by palhudo and fountainpagan and I should have tried harder because overall I found the Portugese fountain pen landscape pretty vacant. I found the odd little higher end tourist shop with a pen or two but nothing particularly noteworthy except for two places.

 

The first was the Papelaria Da Moda on either Rua do Ouro or Rua Aurea depending on which map program you use (http://www.yelp.ca/biz/papelaria-da-moda-lisboa). It was a cute shope, not a massive selection but the owner/manager was very friendly and eager to discuss pens. I bought a Schaeffer Taranis, it does not get the best reviews online but I love it and with its really fine nib it has become one of my daily writers.

 

The second was a little touristy pen shop in Aveiro. I regret to admit I cannot remember the name but I know that it was on Rua Do Mercadores. The shop had a decent selection, but nothing jumped out at me and I found the prices a bit steep so I did not spend a lot of time there.

 

The prices being a bit steep was my general concensious of everywhere I checked out. In many cases the prices were the same as I saw online or here in Canada but in Euros. For example I have found Faber-Castell Monduro's in Ottawa Canada for around $140, in Portugal they were 110-120 Euros making them a bit pricey with the exchange rate. Regardless of this I enjoyed the hunt for shops and Portugal was a beautiful country and my wife and I are eagerly anticipating our next trip.

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I live in Lisbon and I think we don't have one single fountain pen shop deserving that name. The best places we have are located in shopping malls, they don't have much variety and the prices are generally high. Inks wise it's really poor, even more so than with pens. I do most of my shopping online or when I'm abroad.

 

As for Rua do Ouro or Rua Áurea, it's really more or less the same name, as in Gold Street or Golden Street.

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