Exploring Cinque Terre

This is my second day of my vacation in Italy, but the first when I'm doing more vacation than transportation.  I'm travelling with my friend and a colleague - three girls in Italy for one week - sounds great!
Yesterday we flew to Milan and after two hours there we took a train to La Spezia. Three and a half hours of torture. The seats were great, but besides talking, eating nuts and candies we got nothing else to do. Just sit and watch the landscape which was not so bad. But we survived and our airbnb host took us from train station to the appartment we were renting. After doing so much sitting we wanted to stretch out our feet - two hours in La Spezia having no clue were to go - but it was Saturday and the city was live with music and few young people. It is not scary at all to walk in the dark - we are three and we are Lithuanians.
So, La Spezia - might not be familiar to most of you, but is a very convenient spot to stay when going to Cinque Terre - it offers a lot cheaper accommodation options. And it's a seven minutes ride with train from there to Riomaggiore.
It was a first village on our day trip. We spent a good hour wandering there in the narrow streets/stairs. One reason for this was because a road from there to Manarola was closed. Manarola is really similar to Riomaggiore, and a road to the next village - Corniglia - was closed too(or at least we were told so). It was getting rather crowded at the train station, so when we arrived to Corniglia, we decided to go to the very last village - Monterosso al mare and do a walking from there.
But after seeing Riomaggiore and Manarola, Monterosso was rather disappointing. Yes, it has a beach and lots of overpriced restaurants(we were not expecting anything to be cheap in any of those five villages). But it's beautiful to look at only from a far. So, we took the hiking route.
First, we were optimistic and affected by stunning landscapes. Then the stairs were getting steeper and steeper. They were resembling less stairs and more large pieces of stone. It was getting rather hot, because of the physical workout and because the sun decided to come out of the cloud. We felt our sweat dripping from our faces and backs. One moment girls wanted to go back and take a train....
But we didn't and we were climbing even more higher the paths where sometimes it was hard to pass for two persons, and most of the time there was no railing to hold on. No joke if someone has vertigo. But with every step we were getting closer to Vernazza - probably the most beautiful of the villages of Cinque Terre. We were feeling a little bit out of place - dusty and sweaty, and tired. But still, we had a pizza with tomatoes and pesto sauce.
So, Corniglia was our last stop. When you arrive there with a train(as we did), you can walk or take a bus up the hill to the village center. The ride is included in train pass. There if you get before sunset, you get to see really stunning views of the sea. So, we were lucky with that too. But while waiting for a bus to come pick us up to the train station, we missed one train and the next one was only after an hour. Then the bus came and the driver said that he won't be going down anymore, and we will have to walk.  It was rather dark, but the stairs to the train station were lit up first, but then we had to use mobile flashlight. This journey to the train station was quite adventurous - we missed the turn to the station and ended up on the dead-end seaside walk. But we had plenty of time before train. And we had our supper already prepared - sort of, we bought fruits and a bottle of Rosso wine in Corniglia and we got a focaccia with cheese for free (there is a tiny thought suggesting that while we were doing our shopping, we missed our bus). All we had to do is to get back to our appartment and have a feast there.