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| Young Zoe and her letter |
In 1990, 10-year-old Zoe Lemon threw a bottle containing a message from the deck of a North Sea ferry as she and her parents set off on a vacation to Germany. The family had their vacation, came home to Manchester, Zoe grew up, married and had children of her own and then — just before Christmas 2013 — Zoe’s parents received a letter replying to their daughter’s 23-year-old message in a bottle. It turned out to be from Piet and Jacqueline Lateur in the Netherlands. Piet was walking his dog in the Oosterschelde dykes, near where he and his wife Jacqueline live in Serooskerke, near Rotterdam, when he found the bottle with Zoe’s letter inside it. Zoe, 33, who is originally from Hebden Bridge but now works in a jewellery shop and lives in Pendleton said: “It’s been a bit crazy really. My parents came to visit on Christmas day and they had this letter from Europe addressed to my maiden name, Lemon. “The first thing I saw was my hand writing as a child and my little letter saying who I was and about my pets and my hobbies. It made me a bit emotional.” Mailonline
