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.
现年13岁的丹尼尔.柯洛特奇科,在 俄罗斯加里宁格勒地区,发现了一个啤酒瓶,里面有一封信,来自于弗兰克, 5岁时的投递。他在信上说,“如果你发现了这个,请给我回信,我也将给你回信。”
Since Daniil made contact, he and Frank, now 29, have chatted online.
自从丹尼尔和弗兰克开始通讯后,他和现年29岁的弗兰克,已在网上聊得火热。
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.
有关出版新闻机构称,该德国年轻人还给了这个惊讶的收信人一个新的通讯地址,而且答应回信。
"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."
“我一定会给他回信的。”弗兰克说。“它太令人惊讶了,也许我们在将来还能见到对方。”
'Hidden under the sand' “隐藏沙中”
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.
丹尼尔是在库尔斯沙嘴遗址的一个叫莫斯科维的一个村落上发现的,当时瓶子正处于俄罗斯与立陶宛交界的一个小块沙堆里。