Cinque Terre 24th Sept

We had arrived in La Spezia before bfst in the windjammer. A shuttle bus took us to the edge of town and we walked to the train station to catch a train to Montross a. At Monterossa we walked along the beachfront and nearly decided to catch the next ferry but we would gave missed it ,so we wandered further into the back streets and discovered a whole new part of Monterossa I had not seen before and it was lovely. So glad we missed that ferry.We could gave stayed longer but wanted to see other places, so we caught the train to Corniglia after congratulating ourselves on figuring out how to buy a ticket at the machine. It was quite difficult even though in English. I'm  not sure how any one could do it in Italian. After climbing the 300 odd steps from train station to Corniglia we bought a Basil gelati, their specialty and liked it. After only a short visit we caught the next train to Vernazza deciding that we wouldn't walk between the villages, as walking up those steps was enough walking for today. In Vernazza we went to a pizza place by the Harbour for lunch. The Onion pizza there had been recommended so we had it with salad. From Vernazza we decided to ferry back to La Spezia stopping off at Portavenere, since Wanita has not been there. Walking back to the ship we saw snow on distant mountains. Back on the boat we went to the hot tub and watched us departing again, and just missed the pilot boat man jumping ship. We had a lovely dinner at the dining room and then went to watch the 70's party in the promenade and got in amongst it for a bit of a dance.
Bed at midnight.