Since the evening of 15 April we have been sailing towards the Canary Islands,

where we should be docking tomorrow morning.
On the port side we passed Cape Verde.
On the starboard side  we passed Africa.
Starboard side is the right side of the vessel or an aeroplane when facing a bow or a nose.
After Namibia  there was at a smaller or greater distance  Angola,Congo,Cameroon,Nigeria,Liberia,Sierra Leone,Senegal and yesterday afternoon we sailed adjacent  to Mauritania.Where,I hear you ask.
I could find some reference to this country in dictionaries,but no travel book in the ship's library.The country  lies in the North West Africa,in Sahara.Lonely Planet in their beautifully illustrated "The Travel Book"[updated in 2018, truly  the nicest present any-one could be given] says:...Before  recent security issues made Mauritania out of bounds to traveller,it was traditionally the safest trans-Sahara route for overlanders...How very sad that from the safest it has come to persona non grata.
This afternoon we will be crossing  the Tropic of Cancer.Thanks to the proximity of the Canary Islands  to the Tropic and the African coast,the weather on the Canary Islands is subtropical,it rarely falls below 18 C.
It has  been mostly windy and often cold since leaving Namibia,cannot wait for tomorrow.The weather on the  Canary Islands  has never let me down.