While you can't pick your own olives, if you're looking for an adventure and want to explore everything the five villages of Cinque Terre have to offer, there are incredible hiking trails that ...

tALE by Alessandro Ciabini|Getty Images The best time to visit Cinque Terre is in September and October when summertime's tourists have returned home – and cooler temps and emptied-out trails await.

We got lucky with the timing of our trip. A legendary segment of Cinque Terre’s coastal trail, the Via dell’Amore, had just reopened after more than a decade of closure. A landslide in 2012 ...