A ten-year-old boy who found a bottle on the shore near his home in Ireland is ivisiting Quebec to meet the girls who tossed it in the ocean more than eight years ago.
Oisín Millea found the bottle last October, at Passage East, a fishing village in County Waterford, Ireland.
“I thought it was just rubbish. So I picked it up, looked in the bottle and then I opened it,” Oisin told CBC Montreal. “I tried to read it and I thought it was in Spanish, and then I found out it was in French.”
The message was written in June 2004 by friends Claudia Garneau and Charlaine Dalpé, then 12 years old. They put it into a green plastic pop bottle and cast it into the sea while on vacation at Grande-Vallée, in Quebec’s Gaspé region.
The Millea family and the girls from Quebec met over Skype last October, and vowed to meet in person during the summer.
Oisín and his family are now touring the province of Quebec, thanks to Tourism Quebec. Of course, he has brought the bottle back with him.
You can follow the adventures of Oisín and his family in Quebec, by following his Twitter account: @Oisin_in_Quebec
With files from CBC.