{"id":8199,"date":"2026-02-03T10:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8199"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:55:48","slug":"packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8199","title":{"rendered":"Packing!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just started packing for my <strong>India<\/strong> trip. I fly on Thursday. So obviously I am packing my cricket kit first! A couple of action pictures from last year (they have been in the blog before) me just out with a temple in the background! Also me story telling at an orphanage in <strong>Mumbai<\/strong> (that crowd grew to about 40 )- we are going back there this year. Hopefully the blog will have a few action pictures over the next fortnight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5Z0A2880.jpeg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7480\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7480\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5Z0A2880.jpeg?fit=1280%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Andy Burrows&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1739448466&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Andy Burrows&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;42&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"5Z0A2880\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5Z0A2880.jpeg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5Z0A2880.jpeg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5Z0A2880.jpeg?resize=511%2C388&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/78841f82-f342-46b7-94db-4c45c13d77e0.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7477\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7477\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/78841f82-f342-46b7-94db-4c45c13d77e0.jpeg?fit=1853%2C1054&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1853,1054\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1739279371&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"78841f82-f342-46b7-94db-4c45c13d77e0\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/78841f82-f342-46b7-94db-4c45c13d77e0.jpeg?fit=300%2C171&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/78841f82-f342-46b7-94db-4c45c13d77e0.jpeg?fit=584%2C332&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7477\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/78841f82-f342-46b7-94db-4c45c13d77e0.jpeg?resize=506%2C297&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just started packing for my India trip. I fly on Thursday. So obviously I am packing my cricket kit first! A couple of action pictures from last year (they have been in the blog before) me just out with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2D5Gc-packing","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8200,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions\/8200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}