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Message in a bottle leads to 25-year intercontinental friendship

March 18, 2026 by Leo

One night in 1997, fuelled by boredom, trainee ship bartender Erika Boyero filled some empty bottles with handwritten notes and threw them overboard in Norway. Last week, she met with the Tasmanian woman who found one of her messages.

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For some reason I love message in a bottle stories.

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