I'm Lesley, a freelance travel & leisure journalist. Until recently I was based in stunning South Africa,  but after a major rethink about the future prompted by the Covid lockdown, I've reinvented myself as an English teacher for adults and moved to Santiago in Chile! I'm absolutely loving it, and you can read why in my Chilean travel articles!
Here you'll also find some of my quirky, warped and opinionated ideas on life, love, cheesecake and everything else crucial for survival. If you want to follow me on Instagram, I'm on @lesley_stones
Have fun, and travel safely.

Cine Shorts

Sende & Sensibility: A lighthearted take on the Jane Austin classic, with lively humour, dashing gentlemen, cads and bounders and delicious period costumes. It all ends happily, of course, and the audience may clap that all is right in the world again. ****

Heart of the Beast: A moving and tense tale of an army-trained war dog and his human (Brad Pitt) trying to recouperate in Alaska, where nature gets the better of them. It'll carry you with them all the way. ****

The Odyssey: A blockbuster that's every bit enthralling as they say. Choose the biggest screen possible to enjoy a romp through mythology with some modern-day "war, what is it good for?" angst thrown in. *****

The Invite: Ouch!! The staleness of long-term marriages laid bare in a funny but excrutiatingly honest comedy drama sparked by the arrival of a liberated couple upstairs. A stellar cast and a script that grips as you wonder how the immediate future will unfold. ****