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evel. 11km. Market: Saturday morning.

Revel boasts a bustling Saturday morning market (so, why do markets always bustle?) and at least 2 sizeable supermarkets - Casino on the road to Castres (lhs) and InterMarché on the road to Lac de Saint-Ferréol (rhs). As with most French towns there are plenty of furniture places, and Revel is the 'city of fine crafted furniture' according to the official Revel website [revel-lauragais.com]. There's a specialist wine shop too. Revel is shut on Sundays and mostly shut on Mondays (supermarkets open).

aint Félix. 6km. 

There's a small shop on the D622, on the right just as you leave Saint-Félix in the direction of TOULOUSE. Opening times/days seem to be rather unpredictable. It sells milk. We know that much, even though it had closed for travaux et funèbres the day that we went there to buy some.

Sybella, the even smaller shop/cafe on the corner of the market square sells an eclectic mix of ladies clothing and does a pretty good lunch too. In a side street off the square you will find Expo, a shop that specialises in locally made lace blouses and scarves, hand-dyed in blue pastel by the lady who runs the shop/cafe. Pastel, also known as cocagne in the Languedoc and woad to the ancient Britons, was largely supplanted as by indigo when it arrived in France from 1560 onwards but has enjoyed something of a revival in recent years thanks to modern cultivation techniques. 

unday Shopping. Anyone who has ever tried to get dinner in a French hotel at one minute past nine in the evening will know that 'Open All Hours' is NOT a common slogan in France.  Rural France is mostly closed on Sundays and at  other odd days and half days in between. However the shops in Villefranche-de-Lauragais open between 10am and around 12 noon on Sundays. The small village store on the road out from Saint-Félix to Toulouse (see above) is rumoured to open on Sundays. Restaurants do open but you need to book early for Sunday lunch.