i bought a really neat sketchbook and an artstore in florence. its not extreme quality paper, but its bright pink...which brings amazing funk to most everything you draw.
and the leather bond is cute and there is bee decorated paper and a tag to write your name in the first page....cute.
on a more serious not i also but the fabriano Venezia sketchbook. i saw it in soho before but its fucking great, the paper takes watercolor and gouache pretty well and also markers.