Message in a bottle leads to 25-year intercontinental friendship
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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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In 2001, a message in a bottle washed up on Tatlows Beach in Stanley in far north-west Tasmania, four years after it was thrown overboard in Norway.

The sender and receiver of the bottle have met in person for the first time, after more than 25 years of long-distance friendship.