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Pelikan Hub 2025 in Bremen

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Vegefarm, the venue for Bremen's Pelikan Hub 2025

Another year, another Pelikan Hub. After Hamelin’s acquisition of Pelikan, there was some uncertainty about the future of the Pelikan Hubs, especially when we reached May/June, the time when registration for the Hub opened in previous years, and the situation was still unclear. I am sure I was not the only one who was relieved when Pelikan confirmed that the Hub happens again in 2025. 

This year I had again the honour of being Hub Master for Bremen. After Bremen’s Hub in 2024 ran successfully in Vegefarm, a vegan restaurant in a fairly central location in Bremen, we also used the same venue again this year. On the same evening as the hub, there happened to be a football game by the local team, though. With the stadium being quite close to the restaurant, some roads were blocked, but public transport still ran as usual. 

Florian's ink swab samples

From my point of view, the evening went very well. We had some familiar faces, some new faces, and even some visitors from far away— we had a great time talking about stationery, great food, and one participant even brought little gift bags for everyone. 

Thank you, Pelikan, for making this happen.

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Pelikan Hub Bremen 2024

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Vegefarm, Bremen

The Pelikan Hubs for 2024 took place last weekend and luckily I was chosen again as the Pelikan Hub host for Bremen. This year we met in a more central location: in a very nice and vegan Restaurant serving Chinese / Taiwanese food.

Compared to last year it was really busy: Altogether twelve fountain pen fans attended, including Michael Silbermann, the author of the bilingual book in German and English on Pelikan’s special and limited edition’s between 1993 and 2020. He and his wife also brought a few of their special and limited editions with them. It was great to try them out. Other participants also brought lots of pens and I was able to try out pens I didn’t even know existed before this evening.

If you also attended a Pelikan Hub please let me know how it went. I’d love to find out what happened in other cities.

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Pelikan Hub Bremen 2024 Preview

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After Hamelin’s acquisition of Pelikan last year, there have been some changes, including the announced closure of Pelikan’s sales and distribution locations in Hannover and near Berlin.

We’ll have to wait and see how Pelikan’s long term future will look like, but in the near future, we certainly have the Pelikan Hub to look forward to. I was lucky enough to be able to act as the Hub Master for Bremen again. As I am more familiar with Bremen by now, I found a more central location for the Pelikan Hub: Vegefarm, a Taiwanese, vegan restaurant that has kindly agreed to let us hold the Pelikan Hub there this year.

Looking forward to seeing all Bremen participants there on 27 September and also wishing participants of the other Hub locations a great time.

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Pencil prank & Pelikan

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I couldn’t help but notice the pencil on the cover of the latest Beano issue. Well, I say the latest issue, when actually it was four issues ago because my son’s subscription is slow to arrive here on the continent. At least you can still subscribe to The Beano here. The Phoenix stopped their subscription to EU countries altogether because of issues with delayed and missing deliveries and they don’t offer a digital subscription either.

In case you’re wondering what the pencil prank is, have a look here:

On a different note: registration for the Pelikan Hub 2024 is open. You can register here: https://www.pelikan-hubs.com/

I hope to be able to run a Pelikan Hub again. As I am more familiar with my ‘new’ city, I have a better idea for the location this year.

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Pelikan Hub Bremen

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After recently moving from the UK to Germany, this year I was involved in the Pelikan Hub Bremen, rather than the Preston Hub that used to be my home hub.

The Pelikan Hub took place in a Greek restaurant in the North of Bremen. The location was chosen as it was close to public transport and also offered a big car park.

Some numbers linked this Hub: Unfortunately, three of the participants who signed up didn’t take part. There were also another three people who didn’t sign up but wanted to come along. In the end, however, they couldn’t make it. That left us with five participants which means that this was probably one of the smallest Hubs…

Despite the small number of participants I enjoyed the Hub very much. I wonder how long other Hubs went on for. This one lasted around four hours.

Thanks to Pelikan the participants got bottles of the ink of the year, nice notebooks and postcards.

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