In September 2012, my girlfriend of three years and I traveled to Italy. We flew to Zurich, Switzerland, and used three trains to reach San Candido in the German-speaking South Tyrol (known in Italian as the Alto Adige region) of northeastern Italy. Starting in San Candido, we visited more than a dozen places in Italy in the next eleven days. At the end of our visit, we returned to the United States from Rome.