From message in a bottle to blogpost to radio interview.... When old media meets new media.

Great story from my friend blogger Eline in the Netherlands...

While walking her dogs on the beach in November last year she found a bottle... with a message. It was a letter from 11 years old Corey Withers in the United Kingdom who launched his message in a bottle in June 2006 while on holiday with his family.

Eline blogged about this find and now - 4 months later - she received a comment on her blogpost from the Derby Evening Telegraph who is running a story in their newspaper about this.

The next comment on her blog was from the BBC Radio in Derby who would like to interview her !

This story is a great image of how a message delivered by a very old medium (the bottle !) can travel a long way and be revived thanks to the publishing power of blogs.

I am sure Corey and Eline will be pen pals for life now.

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Comments

[Ellee]

Nice to hear a story with a happy ending, this certainly puts a smile on your face.