Chambéry.
Spent a month in this frankly spectacular town.

Chambéry is a fucking lovely place, with great buildings, amazing scenery (nestled near the swiss alps) with brilliant parks, giant pink mansions.... river walks and all sorts of awesome stuff like that.

While I was staying in Chambéry, there was a strike by France's rubbish collectors. They went around ripping open bags of rubbish and tipping out bins to make stinking rotten piles of festering horror line every alleyway and street.

Three hand a half weeks of delight, but half a week of it being a real Rubbish Town.
(Scritty Bakerman., Wed 4 Nov 2009, 0:12, 2 replies)

On top of which
The airport is in a valley prone to fog. It seemed like a good idea to fly there instead of Geneva and have an hour's less transfer time to the mountains, but on the way home the whole airport shut for two days. Chaos.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 8:41, closed)

i thought it was a shithole when I was there
Small, full of weird people.

And WTF's the deal with the Elephants?

Crap and I never want to go back.

Oh, except Charlie's bar! The only decent place I found there in 2 weeks.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 11:46, closed)