To market to market...

We have just finished doing a lap of Venice. We began this morning at the Rialto markets looking at the fruit and seafood stalls. Then we traversed San Polo district with Lyn shopping all the way. At last she found the little handbag she'd been looking for but, despite what seemed like hours of searching and the encouragement of a flock of Americans, not a blouse or scarf.

The highlight of all this endeavour (for me) was the shared late breakfast panini, the takeaway pasta place where we had elevenses and the espresso I had for a pre-lunch pick me up. We crossed numerous pretty canals and got mildly lost.

How much is that doggie in the window?

My target was the I Frari church which had two Titians and a Bellini. There was also the spectacular tomb of Titian and the strange pyramidal funerary monument of Canova with a sad lion. It was a beautiful brick Gothic church. (A stone Gothic pile would have sunk San Polo.)

Didier Descouens

We came back by crossing into the Dorsoduro district and then crossing the beautiful wooden bridge over the Grand Canal called Ponte Dell'Accademia. 

We passed the church where Interpreti Veneziani perform concerts of baroque music every evening. We bought tickets for tonight because, incredibly, we hadn't heard any Vivaldi yet and this is his home town.

We traipsed through the Correr Museum in San Marco. Then it was home for a late lunch and a nap before our concert.