“I knew very little about my grandfather, but I found out that he was a writer who was very open-minded, and believed in freedom and that everyone should respect each other,” she said. “He did a lot for the young and later traveled with his wife and two daughters. It was wonderful because I could see where my roots came from.” Erdmann said she also liked culture and traveling around the world, just like her grandfather. She described herself as open-minded, too. “What he taught his two daughters, my mother taught me and I have then given to my sons,” she said. She was very happy to receive the bottled message, she said, but she hoped other people would not do what her grandfather had done and throw bottles with messages into the sea. “Today, the sea is so full of so many bottles and rubbish that more shouldn’t be thrown in there,” she said.
Does Angela approve of sending bottled messages into the sea nowadays?
No, she thinks there is already enough objects in the sea that do not belong there Yes, as long as they are not thrown along with rubbish Yes, to her it is part of the culture of travelling around the world No, she thinks broken bottles in the sea can be dangerous