It's time to get ready for one of our favourite Swiss events: the night of museums in Valais! With free museums, trains, buses, soups and wine awaiting us, can we possibly resist the call of the Swiss canton?

Of course not! The full program is already out, at https://ndmvs.ch/ : as usual, the big challenge will be to pick a handful out of the gazillion events that Valais has kindly arranged for us. Will we stick to the museum of Vatican guards, which features a vast underworld that would be impossible to explore on other days, or will we travel farther than Sion, to visit the boat museum on lake Geneva or the events at S.Maurice castle? A lot will depend on the weather but, for sure, we won't be bored!

Just like in the past years, let's meet up at Brig station shortly after 11am, so as to catch the Caracas carnival. The rough plan then is to have a hike to the Bhutan bridge in Leuk ( https://www.pfyn-finges.ch/de/naturpark-entdecken/auf-eigene-faust/wandern/offer-detail/bhutanbrucke-1975 ) and start the museum tour at 5pm, with the Rilke museum in Raron, which comes with a glockenspiel and pumpkin soup.

If you wish to stay overnight, plan for Sunday is to have a hike somewhere near Brig , maybe in Eggerberg (and possibly combine it with Brigerbad thermal baths?)