This ship works like a well oiled-machine. They opened the galley for viewing at 10:30am, but the queue stretched back half the length of the ship, so we decided not to join in. Our dinner companions, Geoff and Joan queued early and told us it must occupy half an acre and has escalators sending food to various parts of the ship.
All the deck chairs toe the line at 7am, ready for passengers to push them around all over the place.
We heard a very good talk on the life of Bing Crosby at 11am and at 2pm we attended another excellent classical concert from the pianist and flautist.
The daily list of activities usually lists an unhosted session for "Friends of Dorothy - LGBT". Our table companion Carolyn was curious to find out what this meant, so she took another lady she had befriended along and found only three men in attendance. They explained that L stands for Lesbian, etc. and had a friendly conversation with the ladies. They did not say who Dorothy was, however, and we wondered whether it was a reference to the Wizard of Oz.
Another cryptic session was labelled "Friends of Bill W." which turns out to be A.A. Why?
We have decided to buy tickets for an 8 hour excursion from Durban to a Zulu village as we have some ship's allowance left to spend.
People are always queueing up at the laundries and one of the three machines on our level is out of order. We hear it is becoming a war zone. Someone was put off the ship for putting chocolates in a dryer to spite a rival and another person was put ashore after branding a rival's arm with a hot iron. Seems the laundry is the most dangerous area of the ship.
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