{"id":5962,"date":"2012-11-23T04:44:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T08:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galadriel.astro.utoronto.ca\/ballast\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2012-11-23T04:45:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T08:45:31","slug":"christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=5962","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since leaving Princeton and Spider, I have been heading down to Antarctica for the BLAST-Pol flight campaign (on which Tristan has already made several posts in my absence<\/a>). Because everything ran on schedule (somehow), I spent only one full day in Christchurch: gear issuing in the morning, and a bit of exploring in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

The day was spent with a group of people from the WISSARD project<\/a>, who had been staying at the same hotel as me. Being biologists, they were full of fun information at the botanical gardens.<\/p>\n