To find a bottle mail feels like something that happens to people in fairy tales. Welcome to Iceland – the fairy tale country.

In Tjörnes (just “a stone-throw” away from Húsavík) this happened to a man, Þorkell Lindberg "Lindi" Þórarinsson, who was walking his dog like usual along the beach. Loads of dóti (stuff/rubbish) is washed up with the waves, and sometimes you can find really unexpected things...

As soon as he laid his eyes on the bottle he realised there was something inside. A mail, a message written on paper ripped out of a bluebook, rolled together and put into the bottle. It all started to get really exiting and he couldn’t resist breaking the bottle there and then. The letter was soaking wet and smelled of vodka which was maybe not very surprising as the bottle was of that type. To get a better chance to interpret the message, Lindi brought it home to dry.

This was a message from another place and time... Some of the text was lost due to the dampness but what he found out was that this bottle had been sent from a boat called Bear Cove Point on the 11^th of April 2007. Then it was located outside the coast of Newfoundland at the position 47°50´N, 51°50W. Its home harbour was in St. Johns. It took the bottle exactly three years and one month to travel - day and night – from Newfoundland, with the Gulfstream to the Promised Land, Tjörnes.

This is Lindi who found the message in the bottle.

This is the bottle which has kept the letter during those last three years. ICEBERG is a vodka produced in Newfoundland.

Taken from an article on 640.is.

Lia