Day 50 Cinque Terra

17 June
We woke up to find a market had materialised outside our window. We went down before breakfast and spent 2.50 euro on a punnet of strawberries, half a kilo of cherries and 2 rolls for lunch. After breakfast we caught a very crowded train to the last town in the Cinque Terra series, Monterosso. We then walked the whole way along the coastline between the towns, maybe around 12km in total (some of the coast tracks were closed so we had detours up the cliffs a bit). The towns were then Vernazza,  Corniglia, Manarola and finally Riomaggiore. The scenery was spectacular with the deep blue of the med next to the green terraced farms and the brightly painted houses of the towns. There were also lots of bright flowers near the track amongst the crops and vines. The day was very hot, at lunch time in Corniglia we stopped for a swim and went snorkeling around a lagoon. In Riomaggiore we had a cone of freshly cooked calimari, as a reward for walking the entire trail,about 6.5 hours.