You can’t get to Porto Venere by train from Levanto. So at 10am, we boarded a ferry, and in just over 90 minutes we were there. Levanto’s ferry terminal. This is not a pool. Remember the towns of the Cinque Terre? Would you like to see their pretty faces from the seaside? These are just…

Without Tim’s advice, we would not have stayed in Levanto. We would have stayed in Monterosso or another one of the villages in the Cinque Terre. Though the cities are lovely, they’re busy, the streets are narrow, and it’s a challenge to avoid ‘tourist food’. But Levanto, Levanto. It’s the kind of town where children…

No, there’ll be no nudity here. I know how you think. We’ll take it easy today, we decide, no need for hiking clothes or shoes. Let’s take the train to Riomaggiore, the last town to the south in the Cinque Terre, walk a bit in each town, then take the train to the next. Cinque…