Our first exploration into La Penne, France

La Penne, France - our first WWOOF home village;

with the Arias family. (it was really hard to choose photos, this isn't even all of them- I swear!)

we hopped across this field from the farm in order to get into the village.

the church

a winding staircase (very common in small France villages)

you know how I feel about doors...

a beautiful and quite obviously old succulent in the beautiful Mediterranean climate.

the goal for the day - get to the highest point in La Penne which appeared to be this tower.

There were cats everywhere, but we didn't see any other people...





we made it to the tower!

wow, what views!

there's our farm! in the bottom right corner

(not the 2-story building, but the one near the pond)

Where's Waldo? Or Jason rather, standing next to the tower for "perspective".

there is our farm again!

(I did mention that it was hard to pick just a few photos, right?)

that is a winding road below

"Voila!"

Next stop for the afternoon - the church tower below.

Can you find the church tower in this one?

Oh, an art shot for fun.

Au revoir tower.

Another cat!

The school

This was dated 1900, not that old...

The bell tower!

We could count on this guy to ring every day, every hour AND every half hour. We often referred to these chimes as "the chimes of freedom" after a long work day.

This was not a church with services for the living...

and for my landscape architecture friends - check out that nice stony hardscape! Beautiful!