Field Trip North Day 7 - Cinque Terre...my favorite day

So Cinque Terre is made up of 5 little coastal towns about 9 kilometers apart all linked together by hiking paths through the mountainous terrain. WE decided to hike the whole damn thing. why not right. We lived on the 5th town, Riomaggiore,and the beach was at the first town, Monterosso, so we planned on hiking the whole way and then relaxing on the beach and taking the train back. We set off and the trail takes us right to the coast which we end up following the whole way. you could pretty much see water the whole time, only thing was, we were hiking on cliffs hundreds of feet above that water. a fall would probably hurt a little. so to make a long story short we started with 8 people, ended with 7...
only kidding of course. The first leg of the journey was easy hiking, pretty much paved walkways, but we kept pressing on the trails got more and more rugged and admittingly a little dangerous. anyway we pressed on, making it through all 5 twns, each of them we stopped in to catch a breather and to explore it a little. They were each special in their own way. The 5th was of course the beachiest of the 5. We got there, and ate at the first restaurnat we saw off the hike which was a really chill, inexpensive little restuarant rght off the hiking trails and overloknig the beach. We all got girly drinks, pina colada here. hey, it was delicious. We relaxed for awhle at the beach and swam in the crystal clear water. We took a train back to our town around 6 or 7 and ate dinner pretty late that night. It was a great day and i wish i could hike it again, maybe explorig some of the non-coastal trails they had. The next morning we checked out and left taking the train back to Roma, after what was one of the best weeklong experiences i think ill ever have.