Today was our last day in Venice for this trip.  We decided that we would use the Vaporetti to travel around today and, after a trip to a bank at Piazza le Roma we headed to La Pieta, Vivaldi’s church and the museum there.

The church was just as I expected; wonderful acoustics.  The museum was more elusive and I was told to to ring a doorbell at a house on Calle della Pieta.  On entering, we went up to the third floor and discovered we were in the old orphanage, but that the museum (on the first floor) was only open by pre-booking.  We had arrived at a Bed and Breakfast!  The very helpful man there tried (unsuccessfully) to get us on a tour at 12:00, but there was not one.  As a consolation, we were invited onto the terrace for a view well worth the disappointment and to hear the bells of Venice mark midday.

For lunch, we had lobster at a restaurant on the Canale della Guidecca, before going to the Galerie dell’ Accademia, by the Ponte Accademia.

Tomorrow we leave Italy, via Switzerland to stop overnight at Mulouse in France, ready for the final leg back to London (and for us, Norfolk) on Thursday.