Colour tattoo of a red and silver VW camper van with surfboards on the roof and a peace sign, on the upper back.

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VW camper van with surfboards on the back

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A cartoon-style VW camper van sits in the centre of the image, with a red body printed with white hibiscus flowers, a silver roof and bonnet, and a peace sign on the front. Two surfboards are strapped to the roof, and the van has shaded highlights and a light cast shadow beneath it. Part of a pink floral tattoo and a bra strap are visible above it on the back.

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The van had been painted by a man who had never seen a hibiscus, which is why Ray's flowers looked more like cabbages with ambitions. Nobody in Newquay had the heart to say so. He had spent a whole winter in his late mother's garage, sanding rust off the sills with a cheese grater and listening to the shipping forecast, and when he finally backed the thing onto the drive, Gwen Pascoe from number nine clapped her hands like a child at a pantomime.

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The plan was Lisbon. Two surfboards were strapped to the roof, one of them a hand-me-down that had never once caught a wave, and the peace sign on the bonnet was the only thing Ray had paid full price for. 'Dad said a van with a peace sign has to be driven like it means it,' he told Gwen, and then took the Cornish coast road at a steady twenty-eight miles an hour, with a queue of furious tractors building behind him like weather.

Somewhere past Plymouth the van began to sigh. By Roscoff the gearbox had given up entirely, and Ray sat on the front bumper in the ferry car park with a flask of tea, watching the gulls. A lorry driver from Brest, who had seen worse and said so, wheeled over a box of spanners and a coil of cable, and between them they had the engine coughing again by teatime. Ray never did make Lisbon. He got as far as the harbour wall, where he unstrapped the boards, walked the red van down to the tideline, and let the old board float into the shallows for the first time in its life.

The postcard he sent Gwen showed the harbour wall and a small blue wave. On the back he wrote, 'Board two has finally caught something. Please stop sending the shipping forecast. The cabbages are fine.'

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