Show Notes for Episode 156: Sorèze and Revel, Great Day Trips from Toulouse

Categories: Off the Beaten Track in France, Toulouse Area

Discussed in this Episode

• Aeroscopia
• Lac de Belleserre
• Revel
• Saint-Felix de Lauragais
• Saint-Ferréol Lake
• Sorèze

What You Will Learn About in this Episode

• 2’ 03 This Join Us in France episode 156 aboutSorèze and Revel: Great Day Trips from Toulouse (or Carcassonne)
• 4’ Annie and Elyse argue about how to say the name “Revel” + the lake of Saint-Ferréol.
• 6’ The Lauragais area with rolling hills. A wheat-growing area, villages on the top of hills.
• 7’22 The first place you get to on our drive is Saint-Felix de Lauragais
• 8’38 Revel is a small town of around 10,000 people, which makes it a small city by French standards
• 9’50 Furniture-making in the Lauragais: they make good quality copies of classic French furniture styles
• 10’40 Biscuiteries and cookie makers in the Lauragais
• 11’20 One of the main reasons to visit Revel is to visit the Saturday Market. Revel is a “bastide” with an old covered market with a belfry at its center
• 13’44 Weighing stones at the Revel Market
• 16’ There is a great bakery in Revel, they make lovely “croustade” with apples and lemon. They call it “pastel” there
• 18’30 The Montagne Noire in the Lauragais
• 19’20 The village of Sorèze, a town founded in the 700s and famous for its “Abbaye-école de Sorèze”. Hughe Auffrey is a French singer who attended this school
• 25’20 Dom Robert the Benedictine Monk who became a tapestry artist, the museum in Sorèze specializes in tapestries because of him
• 27’ When is a good time to visit Sorèze to enjoy the artist colony side of things? There are craft fairs in the summer, try to
• 27’30 There is a small glass museum in Sorèze because there is a history of glass-makers who lived in the woods long ago
• 30’ The Saint-Ferréol Lake: Annie hates it, Elyse likes it, we’ll let you be the judge and let us know in the comments! This lake was created by Pierre-Paul Riquet to help bring water to the Canal du Midi to help it enough water in the canal year-round.
• 35’15 Why Annie hates the Saint-Ferréol Lake
• 39’ There is another, more wild lake nearby also: Lac d’en Brunet (or Lac de Belleserre)
• 43’30 Aeroscopia Museum in Toulouse

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