Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden
"I went to the window and was quite astonished to see a big ship," he added, in an interview with the Guardian."I had to bend my neck to see the top of it. It was so unreal."
Neighbour Jostein Jorgensen said he was woken by the sound of the ship as it headed at full speed towards land, and ran to Mr Helberg's house."I was sure that he was already outside, but no, there was no sign of life. I rang the doorbell many times and nothing," said Mr Jorgensen."And it was only when I called him on the phone that I managed to contact him," he told TV2.
The Cypriot-flagged cargo ship, the NCL Salten, had 16 people on board and was travelling south-west through the Trondheim Fjord to Orkanger when it went off course. No one was injured in the incident, AFP news agency reported.It is not known what caused the crash and Norwegian police are said to be investigating.
"It's a very bulky new neighbour but it will soon go away," Mr Helberg added.According to reports, the shop had previously run aground in 2023 but got free under its own power.
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Spirit of Place is a collection of minor travel pieces published by Lawrence Durrell in 1969. 'Spirit of Place', though, could easily serve as a descriptor for the entire arc of Durrell's literary output: Prospero's Cell (1945), an account of three years spent on Corfu before the second world war, the Cypriot memoir Bitter Lemons (1957), and the career-making Alexandria Quartet (1957-60). The islands and littorals of the Mediterranean gave Durrell his subject, remade by him into a theatre in which men and women, displaced by the political and social violence of the mid-20th century, stumbled towards each other amid the ruins of ancient civilisations. It feels right, then, that this biography of Lawrence Durrell, only the second major one since his death in 1990, is by Michael Haag, who spent his career writing about the eastern Mediterranean. 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The standard version has always been that his family was Anglo-Indian, with parents who were ethnic Britons living and working during the Raj while longing continually for 'home'. Lawrence Durrell Sr was even that quintessential figure, a civil engineer, at work on the railways that were joining up the subcontinent. Yet Haag's forensic analysis reveals that the Durrell family was located very far down colonial India's pecking order. Both Lawrence Sr and his wife, Louisa Dixie, were 'country born' in the Punjab, with only tenuous connections to Britain. On Louisa's side there may have been Indian blood. The decision not to automatically send the four surviving Durrell children back to 'Blighty' (a corrupted Urdu word) for their education likewise marked the family out as being perilously close to the Eurasians who made up colonial India's subaltern class. Haag is also able to put to rest some of Durrell's more outrageous fibs. It is not true that his family was Irish – he probably just liked the way it made him seem not-English. Nor, in his boarding school in Darjeeling, could young Larry see Everest from the foot of his bed: the windows of his dormitory looked out on to dreary playing fields. Such misdirections were perhaps an attempt to disguise a childhood that was distinctly troubled. Louisa – 'Mother' in My Family and Other Animals (1956), by younger brother Gerry – had already started her descent into full-blown alcoholism, an addiction she passed on to all three of her sons. Haag has dealt before with the Corfu idyll in The Durrells of Corfu (2017), but in this retelling he reminds us that even in Eden things were not always as they seemed. On the island, the Durrells were socially suspect: the gentry class found them rough and boorish, while the priests and peasants were deeply offended by their insistence on swimming in the nude without worrying who saw them. This biography inevitably comes into its own once Larry touches down in Alexandria in 1942 as the newly appointed press attache to the British embassy. Haag's descriptions of the city's melting-pot culture and its steamy eroticism are wonderfully done. It was here that Larry met Eve Cohen, the model for Justine in the first volume of The Alexandria Quartet, who became his second wife. Durrell's previous biographer Ian MacNiven was in the tricky position of having been invited by his subject to write the book, for which he would be given access to private papers. The result was both overlong and overawed. Haag doesn't set out to do a hatchet job, but he is clearer on Durrell's dark side. The puckish author, no more than 5ft 4in tall, was free with his fists, snobbish and racist (Eve's Jewishness seemed both to intrigue and repel him). The book's cut-off point of 1945 means that later accusations by Durrell's daughter Sappho that he compelled her into an incestuous relationship are not explored. She killed herself at the age of 33. Missing, too, is any assessment of where Lawrence Durrell's literary reputation currently stands. In truth, he is not much read or liked now, his books coming over as bloated and cod-metaphysical in a way no amount of gorgeous phrase-making can quite redeem. Durrell's time may come again, but at this point we will have to be satisfied with Haag's account of him as a supreme writer of place, rather than as an astute investigator of the human condition or, even less persuasively, an overlooked modernist master. Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell 1912-1945 by Michael Haag is published by Profile Books (£25). To support the Guardian, order your copy at Delivery charges may apply.
