Day 3: No line on the horizon

Switching on the TV news this morning and one of the top stories was the fact that Amazon has decided to put warnings on any Tom and Jerry cartoons sold through its website as they may be racist. This is because the cleaner in the 1957 series was a black woman named Mammi. This really got me thinking because I had never thought of Tom and Jerry in this way; violent yes, but racist no. As a child, the fact that the cleaner was a black lady no way implied that all black ladies were cleaners. 

However, I couldn't help but wonder, should Amazon wish to pursue this line of reasoning, whether the same racist warning should also be put on any Saga cruises that are advertised through the Amazon site or any of their affiliates. After all, every single one of the 700 passengers on the particular cruise I am on at the moment happens to be white, while almost all of the crew (95%) is Filipino. Unfortunately, I forgot to ask the cabin boy bringing the morning tea to my cabin for his opinion on this one.

Walk the mile

Anyway, as white paying guests, the first place we visited this morning was the Veranda restaurant for a modest breakfast, in comparison to the full English the morning before. This was then followed by another bout of Latin line dancing in the Britannia Lounge. Next came a new activity for us; a two-mile walk around Deck 12 to burn off the excess calories we had put on yesterday. 

The crew on a fire drill

Unfortunately, on the Saga Sapphire it is all too easy to become distracted from a self-imposed health regime however. After all, free ice cream and hamburgers are always on offer to paying white guests and it is just so very tempting to simply stand around watching the hive-minded crew going about their fire drills and daily chores.  When it comes to the natives, the Captain obviously believes that a busy ship is a happy ship.

Tonight is going to be an exciting evening as we will have our first formal dinner. This will be an occasion to meet the Captain and be photographed with him. I have already seen the podium being set up for the occasion. Admittedly, I did become quite annoyed with myself when I realized that this type of photo opportunity would be taking place. Two days earlier, when we came to Southampton by taxi, I totally forgot to have my picture taken with the driver.