Travelling to France 2006 (Part 1)

So, it was Thursday 17th August, when we set out for France, we left the house after any last minute packing, at 4.30Am set for Dover, on the day my AS results were to be published, so I missed those, but anyway, I drove up to Dover in the 406, while everyone else managed to get some sleep!. We arrived at Dover after a quick drive up to Dover, at about 8.45, so pretty much just in time! for the sailing at 9.00 AM (for those who havent seen the dock, it looks like this)

Now, we arrived in France at about 11AM (after losing an hour due to time differences) so we had to nail it down to Versailles along the Bologne autoroute A16 (An empty Aire on the Autoroute).
While I was here I tried a bit of photography with a tree and open landscape in the Aire, so I climbed up the massive bank at the back and took these! ( I tried to include as much sky as I could in these pictures, to show the vast expanse of land there is in France, especially how open it is in the Northern part of France.)
I also saw this at the Aire (Wild Mushroom) I used the super macro magnifiying glass mode on my camera to get a super close pic, I am very pleased with the way it looked so big, when it is in fact very small, it gives a false idea of the size. Part 2 coming very soon