Chambery'ille Chennai vasigal (Lot of people are from chennai who came to this trip)

The last weekend trip started with Venkat & Vijay coming to Grenoble on Friday night. We all had a nice food for the night and then planned for the next days. The next day in the morning Narasimha, Gayathri and Dalareen joined us and we had Rava masala dosa with Sambar and lemon rice. After that we started to Chambery by train from Grenoble, without Dalareen as she was sick. Dalareen we missed u a lot on this trip. We reached there in the late afternoon. The origins of the town of Chambéry are to be found in the Roman history. Chambéry plays an important part in the history of Western Europe in their capacity as "doorkeepers of the Alps", and made the name of Savoie famous all over Europe. After the French Revolution period of large-scale urban works gave the town most of its contemporary look. A new page was turned for Chambéry in 1860 when Savoie was reunited to France following the treaty of Turin of March 24, 1860
Chambéry then became a mere county town, nevertheless retaining from its glorious past a natural pride, a few institutions, strong juridical and commercial traditions, a picturesque center with narrow streets and alleys, and rich mansions below the ducal castle...
Until the end of WW II, the town hadn't changed much, but in May 1944, an air raid destroyed one-third of the historic center. The reconstruction that followed gave the town a new appearance, and low-cost housing developments were built in the suburbs.
Today the town intends to take the best advantage of its history, traditions, and firm commitment to culture to assert its role as Alpine heartland of Europe.
Chambéry is situated between the Bauges massif and the Chartreuse mountain range, in the cluse that bears its name. To the south the town stretches out to the vineyards on the hillsides of the Combe of Savoie ; to the north it almost reaches the shores of Lake Bourget — France's largest natural lake. This is the biggest lake that covers Aix-Les-Ban & Annecy. I think I need to post on those visits also …let me do that soon.
We came out of the Gares (Railway station) and saw the Velo Station (cycle stand in our local bashai) . Then we went Inside and hired the cycles. We had to pay a deposit of 1500 Euros, but finally managed to pay Euros 1000. Then after with the map we asked him what is the best place to go around.. he suggested that Lake Bourget which would be like 1 hour drive from that place. It was like already 3.30 in the afternoon and we had to return the cycle back 7.00, So after the initial adjustment we decide to go on the way suggested. We went in the opposite direction. When we started reading all the places which are supposed to come in the right was coming in the left and places which are supposed to on the left are on the right…then the best things struck our mind 2 option ..one either we turn the map or we better turn..the first one was best. After this we started taking pictures of all the nice landscape and this delayed our journey further. On the way we discovered that this lake is out of Chambery. So we left the city roads and then joined the Main roads.. It was nice traveling in the cycles in the Auto Bhan (these are highways) .. all the cars were going in slow speed because of us. After some nice spaghetti turns we landed on the other side of the roads and joined the beautiful corner. This is where all begun. I have loaded the movie of the path we took. Kindly have look at that also. Then we went cycling all the way blocking the road where ever we felt like..I know those people would have been cursing us. After a long drive with 2-3 halts we reached the lake. Oh what a sight. The best thing about the entire trip was the weather. This really helped us to keep going. After reaching there all the effort are paid. We had an excellent view of the place and that reminded again about the “Shabari malai”. After this we had to rush back ‘cause we had to return the cycle. On the way we stopped, u know why. We saw a APPLE tree. Vijay was the one who spotted this and we all came back. Like Manga adichifying we did Apple adichifying and enjoyed the apples. This is a first time for a few who saw the apple tree. It was a green apple tree…and we did what best could be done there and then no stopping on way back. After we retuned the cycle we went in search of Quick or Mac D. Most of the old town is now a pedestrian area, so it is a pleasant place to stroll around and visit. So we went on and finally stopped in Monoprix. Grabbed a few chips and croissants and finished the dinner and came back.
We planned to go Alps-de-heuz, but the weather god wanted us to take some rest.
That’s the way the weekend came to an end.