A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.

Gay showed the bottle to mem­bers of Creative Ireland NeartnaM­acharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.

The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.

There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.

The Maharees Heritage and Con­servation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Mon­day, and within an hour group mem­bers were messaging with Anita.

Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com

 A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.

María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.

Fuster’s collection includes mul­tiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the im­ages of characters including Super­man, Betty Boop and Garfield.

Fuster maintains two blogs relat­ed to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have do­nated egg cups to her collection.

Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.

-upi.com