Grenoble; Monday, 05 September, 2022

I woke up feeling surprisingly not stiff as I was expecting the unplanned hike of the previous day would have had an effect, but clearly the Voltarol had done its job and I was able to get out of bed, rather than crawl.

I had a lateish breakfast and checked out of the hotel heading over to the tram stop to pick up the tram out to the University. From there I picked up a local bus and headed out into the foothills of the Belledonne Range to the town of Vizille.

The town is home to a stunning chateau, which is home to the Museum of the French Revolution, which was my main reason for heading here to have a look around.

Unfortunately, the bus had been quite late and by the time I got to the museum there was only about 45 minutes to look around before the museum closed for lunch. Thankfully all the descriptions were in French only and I decided not to take an audio guide so I was able to see much of the site before they kicked everyone out for lunch.

I had a wander through the palace gardens, which have been turned into a public park and are open during lunch and after taking in the gardens went for a wander through the town centre. It may partially have been because it was lunchtime, but the town felt very empty with no shops open at all. Whilst some clearly were closed for lunch a large number looked like they hadn’t been open for a very long time and the whole town had a slight ghost town vibe to it.

I headed back to the chateau in time to make the bus back into Grenoble, which was running almost to time this time, and then headed back round to the hotel on the tram to pick up my bags before heading back to the main station and catching the TGV back to Lyon Airport.

A relatively quick journey through the airport and out onto the plane, which then took an age to board for no obvious reason and a further delay due to air traffic restrictions before we finally took off over half an hour late for the journey back home.