Walking 5 Italian villages in 48 hours

'Madness', they said. And that was from the family.

I'd promised them an Italian summer holiday full of jumping off black lava rocks into famed azure water, glasses of Prosecco clinking as the sun set over the Ligurian Sea. What I hadn't told them is we'd be walking between five, albeit very cute, villages across a short stretch of coastline named Cinque Terre.