Message In a Bottle Travels To Norway
A Massachusetts woman who visited Bermuda in 2010 and put messages in two sealed rum bottles in memory of a friend who died from cancer and tossed them into the water, is thrilled after both bottles washed ashore in Europe.
WPRI reports that during the summer of 2010, Mary Lou Manley went sailing off the coast of Bermuda. She put the messages in the bottles in memory of Ken McKenzie, and tossed them off a boat. The first bottle was found in Scotland a while back.
Then, in August of this year, one of the bottles turned up on the beach of a tiny village in Norway — Holkestad — after traveling some 3,700 miles. One strip of paper included Ms Manley’s email address, and the person who found the bottle contacted her.
When the email from Norway showed up in her mailbox, Ms Manley’s heart raced: “I calmed myself down a little bit, but as soon as I opened it up and read the woman’s words — I knew it was the real deal.”
WPRI reports that while she still misses Mr McKenzie more than anything, Ms Manley says she’s been invigorated by the experience. “It’s an amazing feeling — the odds of something like this happening are just incredible,” she said
Read the full story here on WPRI.com.
Ms. Manley, it is always great to hear something positive, thanks for sharing this news with us! God Bless.
Better than the post office.
I can’t help but LOL… even in the days of internet people still find ways other than the post office cause the post office just sucks o and don’t forget your postal code cause they could be at the receivers door step and still mark return to sender stating insufficient address. LOL
“Oh, my mistake, Sir. I have to take this message back to the sender. The address is wrong. See you in a month!”
lolz
You mean faster than the ost Office and did not have to have the full address!!!!
Isn’t this littering?
LOFLLL
Shoot! Mary Lou you should work for the Department of Tourism cause you know how to promote Bermuda better than those Bim Bos in Tourism.
flip flop furbert and billy wiffit should learn from you… let’s put them in a bottle and hope for the best lol
We’re all a bunch of idiots, all the myths that surround our island and we haven’t taken advantage of any. We could have drawn up 5000 crappy little treasure maps, made them look old (I learned how to do that when I was 8 in school), put them in some old crusty bottles and sent them on their way, people would flock here hopelessly looking for treasure lol SAL could hire more employees because they would make a killing in shovels alone. Hell we could put bubblers a few miles off dockyard and market the Bermuda triangle, Discovery channel does it. Label the Bermuda triangle only safe to go around during the winter months (our off season *wink* *wink*). Almost every time you ask a foreigner if they know where Bermuda is, you usually get a response like “you mean by the Triange?”, if they think its there give it to them. I’m not really for con-ing people out of money but we need something…then again the plan could backfire and they could end up digging our entire island up lol.
you are right. but we have to be careful cause all the berjuvians would start just throwing all their garbage overboard and use the excuse that its supposed to float out with a note on it.
garbage man would be out of work smdh lol
i dont think we should take our ideas to tourism so hush
you sound like Madoff and a few other crooks we know…….
Madoff, really? I’m flattered but I don’t think I’m that good. I guess we’ll just have to stick to the “triangle? Ha that doesn’t exist…we have $18 drinks though…did you know we like to drink?” plan. You want to market something real? “Head on down to one of our local establishments and ask one of the staff to go above and beyond their job for your chance to hear a traditional Bermudian teeth suck. Bermuda, so much more teeth sucking (per capita)”. See, I like the Bermuda triangle idea better because who’s going to tell us any different? “A yo scientist dun, this is our triangle, we know how it works, key word ‘Bermuda’ triangle, now get the f@ck outa my triangle.”…sorry, sometimes I think my mom spent too much time in front of the microwave when I was a featus…
you have me laughing lol teeth sucking, funny but damn true. but i think that is unique cause no where else do you experience this, truly bermuda.
we want your business but we wana close.
i like the message in a bottle idea.
You are so right about the teeth sucking!! hahahaha
Ohhhh I get it lol like “we had to deceive you, because our tourism numbers suck.”
please dont ever say that, we can select who we want to come here and that goes to airlines, cruise lines and tourist – no wait no one wants to come here…
beautiful island but so outdated.
i think i better put myself in a bottle and ship myself off to norway.
Positive story celebration…..turned into negative comments and just ignorant comments by the same people who are constantly bitter and negative! Save it…it’s boring and takes joy out of positive story!!!