We now have two full sea days before we arrive in St Vincent, Cape Verde Islands on Thursday. We are still steaming SSW and every day picking up a few degrees in air temperature. Today, it felt warmer outside than inside and many people were sunbathing around the pools on the open decks. We are still attending our "lessons" but I sense that as the weather gets hotter, this may become a conflict. There are only so many hours in the day…. Anyway, today...

When we woke up at 7am Aurora was just edging slowly along the seafront in Funchal towards the quay. We were breakfasted and docked by 830 and came ashore to find Happy Tours waiting outside. We were 8 in the group, Bob and I, 2 German couples and a pair of Norwegian girls, no one else from the ship. The tour was of the eastern part of the island and the scenery was spectacular. We started by driving up ot the highest accessible point at 1810m where the views...