Daniil Korotkikh, 13, spotted the beer bottle glittering on a beach in Russia's Kaliningrad region, and found a letter inside from Frank Uesbeck, 5. "If you find this letter, please write back to me, and I will write back to you," the letter said.
現年13歲的丹尼爾.柯洛特奇科,在 俄羅斯加里寧格勒地區,發現了一個啤酒瓶,里面有一封信,來自于弗蘭克, 5歲時的投遞。他在信上說,“如果你發現了這個,請給我回信,我也將給你回信。”
Since Daniil made contact, he and Frank, now 29, have chatted online.
自從丹尼爾和弗蘭克開始通訊后,他和現年29歲的弗蘭克,已在網上聊得火熱。
The German gave his surprise correspondent a new address to write to and promised to write back when he received his letter, the Associated Press news agency reports.
有關出版新聞機構稱,該德國年輕人還給了這個驚訝的收信人一個新的通訊地址,而且答應回信。
"He'll definitely get another letter from me," said Frank."It's really a wonderful story and who knows? Perhaps one day we will actually be able to arrange a meeting in person."
“我一定會給他回信的。”弗蘭克說。“它太令人驚訝了,也許我們在將來還能見到對方。”
'Hidden under the sand' “隱藏沙中”
Daniil found the bottle while out walking near the village of Morskoye on the Curonian Spit, a 100-km (60-mile) stretch of sand shared between Russia and Lithuania.
丹尼爾是在庫爾斯沙嘴遺址的一個叫莫斯科維的一個村落上發現的,當時瓶子正處于俄羅斯與立陶宛交界的一個小塊沙堆里。