September 15 Sunday Sam’s notebook:

Chambery,  the quaintest old town of of Heilbron.
The  soldiers’ uniforms are not soiled, but are awkward, clumsy & ugly.
Some  of these quaint streets, buildings, doors, windows & stairways seem to have  wandered out of old engravings of towns in the middle ages.
There  seem to be rather more soldiers than citizens here.
There  is a great deal of hallooing & racket at night.
We staid a day or two  in Chambery & Turin, a week in Milan,  several days at Bellagio on the lake of Como, three weeks in  Venice…[MTLE 3: 101].

Livy and Clara Spaulding complained of the poor accommodations and food  in Chambéry; they spent a good part of the day looking for food to  satisfy their yearnings for home cooking [MTNJ 2: 156].