Everywhere one looks, one sees the Salute:  from the hotel, across the canal, from where we had lunch, from the terrace where we had dinner:  grand and majestic and slightly larger than life with its spiral volutes, designed by Baldassare Longhena, who was small and dapper and lacking in self confidence.   But I’ve never actually seen it close up, so this morning I walked across the Accademia bridge and through the back streets of Dorsoduro to see it close up:-