{"id":749,"date":"2009-11-10T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T22:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2009-11-03T14:27:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:27:44","slug":"the-importance-of-packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/the-importance-of-packing\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of packing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I pack my one bag to take to Antarctica I not only have to comply with the 23kg baggage allowance but I also need to make sure everything is clean and that I am not inadvertently carrying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antarctica.ac.uk\/about_antarctica\/environment\/wildlife\/non_native_species.php\">non native species to Antarctica. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jill the Head of Building Section at BAS was going to the Falkland last weekend on the MOD flight for a quick trip so very kindly took my skis and ski boots down saving me 120 Euros in excess baggage allowance on Lan Chile. I am looking forwad to getting some post work evening ski trips in. <\/p>\n<p>My bag contains some clothing to compliment what BAS has already given me for work including some base layer socks (thin ones) and gloves. I also have a nice new mid layer for diving in and under my boat suit it is like wearing a sleeping bag toasty and warm&#8230; Lots of handwarmers including some ones that you recharge by boiling, my new SLR camera with waterproof case, deodrant, conditioner, after work clothes etc. I am hoping I have pretty much everything I will need. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I pack my one bag to take to Antarctica I not only have to comply with the 23kg baggage allowance but I also need to make sure everything is clean and that I am not inadvertently carrying non native species to Antarctica. Jill the Head of Building Section at BAS was going to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}