In July, I was in Paris for a weekend, where I visited the Musée Rodin and the Louvre. In August, I was in Spain with my sister Sara for a little over a week—mainly to see the total eclipse, but I also went to the Prado Museum in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum and the Maritime Museum in Bilbao, the Gaudí Capricho in Comillas, and the Thyssen when we were back in Madrid at the end of our trip. Today, with Sara in Basel for a few days, we completed our cultural ten days with the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar to see the Isenheim Altar, which she had never seen before. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 19 August 2026)