Black linework lettering design on a white background reading And so the adventure begins, with flourished capitals and underlines.

And so the adventure begins lettering

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A monoline lettering design reading "And so the adventure begins", with the words "Adventure" and "Begins" set in large decorative capitals and the phrase "And so the" arched above. The strokes are a consistent black line with ornamental swashes on the A, B and S, and double rules running through the main words. The image is a flat black drawing on plain white with no shading or colour.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Mags, I'm writing this on the back of a bus timetable at the frontier post at Varnhold, because the café only sells coffee in paper cups and the wind keeps lifting the lids. The customs officer held my passport up to the window for so long I thought he was reading the ink through the page. Then he asked what I was carrying, and I said a sewing tin, two paperbacks and a jar of your plum jam. He confiscated the jam with a face like a wet Sunday and wrote something in his ledger that I'm sure was about me.

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I didn't mind as much as I should have. Standing in that concrete hall under the strip lights, with its laminated notice about prohibited fruit, I kept thinking of Dad's old drawing pens, the ones that scratched when you pressed too hard. He used to letter the titles on his maps in long looping capitals, and he always said a good line needs a flourish at the start and another at the end, or it won't know where it's going. I thought about that while the barrier lifted, slow as a drawbridge.

On the far side there is one road that bends between the larches and then runs straight out across a plain so flat you can watch the weather walk toward you for an hour. I pulled onto the verge where the tarmac gives out, sat on the bonnet and ate the last of the bread you wrapped for me, which was still warm enough to be a kindness. A lorry went past, the driver lifted two fingers from the wheel, and I laughed out loud like a fool.

I've taken a room above a bakery in the town of Lehr. The landlady wants a deposit in cash and a promise I won't feed the pigeons. I'll write again once I've found a post office and a pen that doesn't skip. Tell Dad the lines are holding up. So the adventure has begun, and I've already spent the jam money on stamps.

Love, Ruth