Gayle knows that while on holiday, the sight of a pen or knife store will then draw me in like a…read moreStar Trek tractor beam. Do I own too many pens or Journals? Yes, and what's your point? And so, during a recent trip to Instanbul, along came Panter Kırtasiye, conveniently located on the Istiklal shopping street. Any pen or journal needed or desired might be found here. I was kind of overwhelmed by it all, before blocking out the expansive journal collection and concentrating on pens, some of them Turkish. The rest is another chapter in my pen purchase history.