Cornwall locals fumed about the ‘awful’ Spirit of Adventure looming over the bobbing yachts, even claiming that the pollution it pumped out impacted local air quality, according to British media reports. Sasha Swire, wife of former Tory House of Lords minister Hugo Swire, said the sight of the ship was ‘awful and ‘shouldn’t be allowed’. ‘How awful,’ posted Londoner Toria Redfern on X, formerly known as Twitter.
In Palma, however, the cruise ship received a warm welcome and the sun was shining for her passengers. Spirit of Adventure operates under Saga's business model of targeting guests ages 50.
Construction for Spirit of Adventure encountered delays arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. She was originally expected to be delivered in July 2020 and was scheduled to be christened at the Portsmouth International Port on 19 August 2020. But on 29 May 2020, Saga announced her delivery and subsequent debut in August 2020 would be postponed after builders Meyer Werft informed Saga that the shipyard had been significantly impacted by work and travel restrictions as a result of the pandemic. She was delivered on 29 September 2020 in Emden and was christened by nurse and senior Royal Navy officer Inga Kennedy on 19 July 2021 in Portsmouth.
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I think Jasón was obviously overcome by pollution fumes. Or maybe he was crushed by the thousands of wrist band wearing moron tourists, disgorging into Palma and suffered temporary brain damage??? A warm welcome for a pollution spewing plague ship?? What sort of idiots do you think Palma residents are MDB???
“even claiming that the pollution it pumped out impacted local air quality,” This makes the complaining locals sound like they are making it up! That’s poor, even by the usually low standards of journalism evident at the MDB. To be clear, Jason, (as you seem to be in the employ of the cruise companies and their misinformation campaign) They are BIG polluters and degrade air quality considerably, especially when in port by keeping their diesel engines constantly running. They’re bloody ugly too!
What makes this journalist say that Palma gave this big, ugly, smokey monstrosity a "warm welcome"???? I strongly doubt there were crowds cheering as it lumbered into port.
What makes thus journalist think Pslma gave it a "warm welcome" - you can't tell me that yh