Penpals Reviews

After just reading a review by supersonic75 - my penpal, I have decided to write what I think about this subject. I first started writing with penpals about 15 years ago. I was 13 year old and I was going on a a school exchange to Germany. So we got paired up with our host family and were encouraged to write before we went to learn ...  Read the complete review

Pen pals. Is it a hobby of the past? In the day and age of emails and texting do people still write actual letters to strangers? Well I for one do! I first started my obsession with penpals when I was about 13 and was an avid Smash Hits reader (showing my age now!). My favourite part of the magazine was the penpals section which had lots of ...  Read the complete review

When I was younger I had alot of pen pals. This was in the days before internet and texting on your phone. I found that I became semi- addicted to it to be honest. At one stage I had approx 35 pen pals. I was always writing letters. I would wait each morning with anticipation for the postman. I bet he was fed up with me, making him deliver all my ...  Read the complete review

I got my first Penpals when I was 13 years old I was reading through a magazine and there was a page with people wanting to find Penpals. So I looked through there likes and dislikes and chose one to write to. I have always loved writing and enjoy hearing about other people's lives in different places and love sharing my interests. A few days ...  Read the complete review

Aimee is 24 years old, live in Rotherham and has a passion for Sheffield Wednesday FC, going out, writing letters, working on her novel, driving her new car and meeting her penpals. Aimee is one of my best friends and I met her through a friendship book when I was 13 years old and from there we began pen-palling. I first started ...  Read the complete review

Writing to different people from all over the world has been a hobby of mine ever since I was very young. From the age of 10 I always wanted to write to someone since many friends of mine talked about their fgoreign friends. I first got into this by the penpal club 'Hola!'. Hola is a club made for people all over the world. What ...  Read the complete review

I can remember one particular year when I received post from over 120 different countries, some I had never even heard of before. I'd better be honest and say that this was because I published several worldwide Penfriend magazines and not because I had lots of friends! I did this for over ten years along with producing a Business Opportunity ...  Read the complete review

I met a girl on holiday when I was about 5. She was German and on the campsite I was staying at we were the only children. She didn’t speak English and I didn’t speak German but we managed to communicate together. I can hardly remember her to be honest. At the end of the holiday we swapped addresses. We got a letter and I replied. That ...  Read the complete review

First off i must apoligise for the title but hey your reading this are'nt you. Penpals are great and i have two penpals who i write to every week one is a girl in Spain and the other in France and what a great way it is of not only making friends abroad who you can visit and stay with but releasing loads of stress and burden by ...  Read the complete review

In the 60s and 70s it was the thing to have penpals. Either from abroad or even somewhere else in this country. At 13 years of age most had a penpal. I had several all of whom I still keep in touch with. When I started working and we didnt have much work on we were told to keep typing and look busy. One day on ...  Read the complete review

Many many moons ago, longer than I care to remember, I started writing to penpals. I think it all started in school with one of those schemes where teachers would be contacted with lists of children in other countries who wanted to write etc and it took off from there. I was quite young when I started and quite a few of my penpals only managed one ...  Read the complete review

With the internet as a really easy way of communicating you would think Pen-pals would be a thing of the past, but no. I still have one. I have two actually. One is from France where when I was still at school a French exchange trip met that she came and stayed with us, then I went to stay with her. We stayed in touch and became Pen ...  Read the complete review

I have numerous penpals and, even though i'm not the best writer I like their letters and try to reply quickly. I started writing to people when I was 14. I went on an exchange trip to Germany with my school and we each had to stay with a German host family. My host was my penpal as was her friends. At that time I think I had 11 in ...  Read the complete review

How do you start a letter to someone on death row? How do you continue it? How do you end it? What do you write about? I have been writing to a Florida death-row inmate for 3 years and it doesn't get any easier - in fact it gets more and more difficult with each letter. I have sat up at night for hours trying to think of the ...  Read the complete review

Ever since I was about 12 years I have always had pen pals. Mostly in Europe and mostly around my own age with similar backgrounds. I love to receive letters, especially with little keepsakes in them, or a postcard. I always put a lot of thought and effort into the paper I chose, or the card I sent, even down to looking for unusual ...  Read the complete review

I married one of my penpals and we're still together after 10 years! OK, so you might not be looking for anything like that but I can't think of a better way to connect with people on whatever level you choose. Penpalling can be the odd letter to keep in touch, funny letters to amuse each other or deeply moving letters where you can ...  Read the complete review

I have been corresponding with penpals seriously for about 7 years now, and am totally hooked on it! Why, you may ask! Well, the answer is, I have made a lot of friends over the years, some of them whom I have met in the flesh! I live in a seaside resort, so gets very busy in the summer months, and most of them have come to my town on ...  Read the complete review

I decided that it would be a good idea to find some penpals to write to via email. I had the idea that making friends all over the world would be an enriching and worthwhile experience. So, I put 'penpals' into a search engine and started trawling through the results. Some of these sites wanted me pay to join..no thankyou. Others ...  Read the complete review

I have had numerous penpals since I was about seven years old. The hobby started when my photo and penpal request appeared in the Brownie Guide Magazine. I'd submitted it about six months before, in the hope of getting some badge or other for it. Well, soon the replies came flooding in, and I loved reading them - there was Juliet, who ...  Read the complete review

My love of letter writing goes back 21 years to when I was 13. An avid Abba fan then (as now!) I was reading the latest edition of their monthly magazine when I came across the penpals section. Jenny, aged 14 from Australia had placed an ad. for penpals, and I decided to reply. I still remember posting that letter (it cost 17 1/2p!) and wondering ...  Read the complete review