Venice coincidence

In 1991, during the first day of a holiday in Venice, my wife and I saw a number of small posters advertising an exhibition by an artist in a local church. There were a number of such exhibitions in Venice at the time by other artists but because this poster included an attractive watercolour we decided to keep it in mind and if we came across the church would visit. Some days later we saw the church and went in. There were a few other visitors but it was only a small display and we left after a few minutes. As we were leaving the artist asked us to sign his visitors book. In doing so I noticed there the entry immediately before ours was of someone, who we don't know, from the same small Shropshire village - they must have been there at the same time as ourselves.