The world's oldest message in a bottle to ever be found is believed to have been recovered - after 108 years at sea.
Marianne Winkler, a retired postal worker, was on holiday when she spotted the unusual bottle floating by the German island of Amrum. The bottle was sent from England as part of a scientific experiment in 1904.
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Germany - Hamburg & the North (Chapter)
Head to Germany's north because you love the water: white-sand beaches are everywhere and, inland, Mecklenburg's lakes are a maze of places to paddle. Then there's the fabled Baltic heritage of the region's historic towns, and finally waterside Hamburg.
Coverage includes: Hamburg & around, Lüneburg, Naturpark Elbufer-Drawehn, Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Travemünde, Kiel, Schleswig, Flensburg, Glücksburg, Husum, the Halligen, the North Frisian Islands, Schwerin & the Mecklenburg Lake Plains, Schwerin, Güstrow, Neubrandenburg, Müritz National Park, Neustrelitz, Coastal Mecklenburg - Western Pomerania, Rostock, Baltic Coastal Resorts, Wismar, Darss-Zingst Peninsula, Stralsund, Rügen Island, Greifswald and Usedom Island.
Marianne Winkler, a retired postal worker, was on holiday when she spotted the unusual bottle floating by the German island of Amrum. The bottle was sent from England as part of a scientific experiment in 1904.
Germany - Hamburg & the North (Chapter)
Head to Germany's north because you love the water: white-sand beaches are everywhere and, inland, Mecklenburg's lakes are a maze of places to paddle. Then there's the fabled Baltic heritage of the region's historic towns, and finally waterside Hamburg.
Coverage includes: Hamburg & around, Lüneburg, Naturpark Elbufer-Drawehn, Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Travemünde, Kiel, Schleswig, Flensburg, Glücksburg, Husum, the Halligen, the North Frisian Islands, Schwerin & the Mecklenburg Lake Plains, Schwerin, Güstrow, Neubrandenburg, Müritz National Park, Neustrelitz, Coastal Mecklenburg - Western Pomerania, Rostock, Baltic Coastal Resorts, Wismar, Darss-Zingst Peninsula, Stralsund, Rügen Island, Greifswald and Usedom Island.
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