After traveling 350 miles across the North Sea, 12-year-old Grace Liddle from Sunderland, Britain, was thrilled to hear her message had been found in a bottle in Sweden, according to reports The subway. A Swedish man named Freddy Stahlberg discovered the bottle almost a year after it was thrown into the ocean last August.
Grace's brother Harry's bottle was discovered in Denmark several months earlier. Before the bottles were shipped from Roker Pier, both siblings had written their names and contact information, making the long-distance journey exciting.
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On August 3, Christie received a Facebook message from Freddy, who had found Grace's bottle on the island of Pinno, 90 miles north of Gothenburg, Sweden. The bottle had traveled 550 miles. Freddy, who was living in Grebbestad over the summer, discovered the damaged note on August 2 and contacted Christie.
“Our family scrambled to find words that were helpful, and we were finally able to identify Christie's name, a hint that she had a Facebook address, as well as the word Sunderland,” he said. The subway.
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“I found her Facebook page using her name, and looking at the images there I was able to deduce that she lived in Sunderland, which was stated in the message in the bottle. With this information at hand, I dared to send a message to Christie. She replied some time later and we were all very excited that we had solved the riddle.”