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Still Crazy - Stan and Sheila woolley

We both travelled and worked in Spain, which is where we first met, back in 1972. Things then were quite different, no plastic card banking or internet to smooth the way.
Our travels were put on hold for a few years whilst we brought up our two children. They now spend large chunks of their life exploring the world.
Now in our mid to late 50's we decided it was time we took up travelling again and this time write our own travel blog. Hope it can compete with the younger generations.
We chose the nickname 'still crazy' because I guess that's what we are, still crazy. We recently completed six weeks backpacking around S.E. Asia and were some of the oldest around!

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By Still Crazy
January 1st 2009

Happy New Year from Ko Phi Phi

Asia » Thailand » Andaman Coast » Ko Phi Phi Don

Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009! After spending a fantastic New Year here 2 years ago we felt compelled to return as we were in the area. Last time we were here things were beginning to get back to normal after the Tsunami that had hit the region on December 26th 2004 and we were hoping that development would not have gone completely crazy. Well, it seems much the same as it was just a bit more development in the middle of the village. One thing that really shocked us though was the number of tour boats bringing hoards of holidaymakers from Phucket [View Full Entry]

By Still Crazy
December 25th 2008

Merry Christmas from Thailand.

Asia » Thailand » Andaman Coast » Ko Lipe

merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Hope you’re all having a wonderful Christmas and enjoying the Turkey etc etc etc!! We just couldn’t ignore the draw of sunshine again, so, throwing tradition to the wind we decided to “go for it” as they say. We intend to spend the next two weeks travelling between islands in the south of Thailand. We are now here on Ko Lipe after a mammoth 4 days of travel, we intend to do nothing now but snorkel, swim sunbathe and party for the next few days before moving on to spend New Year on Ko Phi Phi. Until later MERRY [View Full Entry]

Enormous Tree Roots washed up on the Beach

By Still Crazy
November 8th 2008

Canyon Walks and Bar Crawls

Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Kusadasi

Start of the Canyon Walk. Milli Park

After 8 weeks back in the U.K. the lure of some sunshine was just too great to ignore. As Stan and I now both work in schools and they were all about to close for half term we thought "why not"? After trawling the internet for an evening we came up with a cheap late package deal to Kusadasi, Turkey. It didn't take us long to snap up the deal! We were staying in a small hotel just a few minutes walk to the old town, although it was the end of the season there were still quite a few restaurants [View Full Entry]

By Still Crazy
August 27th 2008

Don't believe Everything You're Told!

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan

Nightmare Ferry from Lombok to Padang Bai (Bali)

All good things have to come to an end and the time arrived for us to travel back from the Gili Islands to Bangkok. We left the homestay at 6.45am to get the 7am public boat off the island to Lombok, by 7.45 it still hadn’t left and Sheila was persuaded by a café owner that we should go to his agency right through to Padang Bai on Bali. "His boat would leave at 8am and we could travel completely hassle free". Big mistake! Soon after paying our money to the agent the public boat left and we were left [View Full Entry]

By Still Crazy
August 27th 2008

Gili Trawangen

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan

Main Beach, Gili Trawangen

We weren’t sure what to expect when we arrived on the island as people we’d met along the way had said how busy and expensive it had become. As we stepped off the boat most things seemed the same, quite a lot more people around maybe. We went in search of accommodation, our favourite place last time we were here was Edy Homestay, unfortunately it was full, after lots more searching and haggling of prices we found one nearby that was similar to Edy’s. 5 little bungalows around a cute well-kept garden. The price was over double what we’d paid 3 [View Full Entry]

By Still Crazy
August 15th 2008

Finally, Civilization!!

Asia » Indonesia » Sumbawa

Mount Rinjani, Lombok. from the Overnight Bus
A rare sighting as most days by 9am the volcano was shrouded in mist.

We arrived outside Perama’s office for our 7.30am start. We were marched off to the port by the ‘helpful’ assistant who handed us our onward bus and ferry tickets and directed us onto the waiting ferry, our home for the next eight hours. On entering the passenger deck we were dismayed to see rows of hard plastic seats, after a search round Stan found the VIP lounge. To use it cost 15,000 rupees extra each (less than a pound). We immediately grabbed a seat. Although the lounge was almost empty we found it hard to find four seats together that actually [View Full Entry]

By Still Crazy
August 13th 2008

Dragon Safari

Asia » Indonesia » Flores » Rinca

Strolling Round the Camp

You cannot come to this part of Indonesia and not go to see the famous Komodo Dragons. This is the only part of the world that they exist and so they are quite rare. The boat ride to the island of Rinca was two hours long. There were no seats in the boat just the floor or the edge of the boat to sit on, fortunately there were only four of us so we were able to spread out, lie down ect. The sea was as calm as a millpond luckily for us as this part of the world is known [View Full Entry]

Juvunile Dragon Sniffing Around the Nest

By Still Crazy
August 12th 2008

Back to Basics on the Island of Serayu

Asia » Indonesia » Flores » Labuanbajo

Main Beach, Serayu

The boat to Serayu left at 1.30.pm and took about an hour. As we got about 150 metres from shore we pulled up alongside a tiny little boat that looked like more like a hollowed out log, it had 6 inches of water in the bottom, this was our transport to the shore. The boatman bailed out the water and put down a few planks then loaded 4 backpacks on plus Stan and myself, leaving the other four passengers behind. He then began to paddle with his hands then he spotted my flip flops and said “Marm?” took them off my [View Full Entry]

Simona and Tomaz on the Tiny Boat we Were Taken Ashore On!

By Still Crazy
August 9th 2008

The Long and Winding Road to Labuanbajo

Asia » Indonesia » Flores » Moni

Rice Paddies Can be Seen Along Most of the 400km Road to Luabanjabo

Moni is near the centre of Flores and we needed to get to Labuanbajo over 400 km on the west coast. The Island of Flores is one huge range of mountains and volcanoes with just one major road crossing the island which, in parts, is in a terrible condition as it constantly twists and turns up and down and around hairpin bends. The complete journey is estimated to take 19 hours if driven non-stop. We had planned to break it up over 2 or 3 days. For much of the time the road is lined with houses precariously built out on [View Full Entry]

By Still Crazy
August 8th 2008

The Three Coloured Lakes of Kelimutu

Asia » Indonesia » Flores » Ende

Two of the Coloured Lakes at the Summit of Kelimutu

The 56 seater turbo propelled aircraft bumped down onto the runway at Ende airport. The two hour flight had been amazing. We had never reached an altitude above 17,000 feet so we had been able to see down to the ground the whole time. Hundreds of tiny islands fringed with white sand beaches and as we flew over Flores a multitude of volcanoes, one which was smoking from it's flanks. After collecting our luggage from the completely chaotic system we emerged from the tiny airport to be met by the taxi touts quoting us rediculous prices to get to Moni, a [View Full Entry]

The Tiny Turbo Prop Plane that took us to Ende on Flores

Taking a much needed Break on the Way to the Mountain Village of Moni