{"id":36216,"date":"2026-03-09T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/36216\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:53:11","slug":"five-year-old-sunderland-boy-super-excited-after-message-in-a-bottle-washes-up-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/36216\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-year-old Sunderland boy ‘super-excited’ after message in a bottle washes up in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

A five-year-old from Sunderland was \u201csuper excited\u201d when he discovered that a message in a bottle he threw off a pier had been found in Denmark months later.<\/p>\n

Harry Liddle and his sister Grace Liddle, 12, threw the glass bottles off Roker Pier in Sunderland on August 28 2023. On March 6, their mother Christie Bowley, 35, received a response on Messenger to say her son\u2019s bottle had been found in Denmark.<\/p>\n

Ms Bowley, who helps out at her partner Jason Liddle\u2019s business \u2013 Instaflor Ltd \u2013 and lives with her family in Grindon Lane, Sunderland<\/a>, told the PA news agency: “I got a friend request on Facebook and I just left it there and saw he was from Denmark and didn\u2019t think much anything of it. I then checked my emails and I had an email from the same person who said he\u2019s found Harry\u2019s bottle and I couldn\u2019t believe it.”<\/p>\n

Frederik Bilgrav Schramm, from Romo, Denmark, told PA he found the bottle on March 6 and also sent some photos of it to the family. The 24-year-old, who is a ship owner and farmer, said: “It was the only bottle this day.<\/p>\n

“It was most likely washed ashore somewhat earlier, as it has been at least (two) months since the water was so high up there where we found it.”<\/p>\n

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Harry writing his message -Credit:PA<\/p>\n

Ms Bowley added the bottle travelled in a straight line from the pier to where it was found in Denmark. She said: “If you look on a map, it went on one straight line across the ocean, which is crazy.”<\/p>\n

“Harry said he thought his bottle would be found back on Sunderland beach, when his bottle was found he was happy and super excited.”<\/p>\n

It was Ms Bowley\u2019s partner and the children\u2019s father who came up with the message in a bottle idea initially. She continued: “He told them one day, \u2018Should we write some messages in a bottle?'”<\/p>\n

“They were really excited and so we ordered some bottles from Amazon and we even tested them to make sure they would not sink and could float. They even came with little scrolls inside which they wrote the messages on.”<\/p>\n

Harry\u2019s note read: \u201cTo whoever finds this bottle, my name is Harry Liddle. I am 5 years old from Sunderland, England.<\/p>\n

“Please can you let my parents know when you find this bottle via Facebook or email.”<\/p>\n

The message was followed by Ms Bowley\u2019s contact details and signed off with the words \u2018Thanks Harry.\u2019 Harry also drew a picture, which was included inside his bottle.<\/p>\n

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The message in the bottle from Harry Liddle that was found in Denmark -Credit:PA<\/p>\n

Grace\u2019s note was similar to her brother\u2019s. Ms Bowley said family members and friends were \u201cin shock\u201d when they discovered Harry\u2019s bottle had been found.<\/p>\n

She said: “A lot of people have even said now they want to try it. We genuinely never thought the bottles would ever be found, it was just something fun we wanted to do with the kids, but we always hoped they might be found.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Bowley said it is a \u201cwaiting game\u201d to see if Grace\u2019s bottle can one day be found. She finished: “Grace\u2019s bottle is somewhere out there floating in the sea, so it is just a waiting game to see if it could be found.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A five-year-old from Sunderland was \u201csuper excited\u201d when he discovered that a message in a bottle he threw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20990,27,26,20991,20988,20989,20992,12391],"class_list":{"0":"post-36216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-christie-bowley","9":"tag-danmark","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-grace-liddle","12":"tag-harry-liddle","13":"tag-message-in-a-bottle","14":"tag-ms-bowley","15":"tag-sunderland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}