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

Michael: I skipped this for weeks for the movie's failure to address Michael Jackson's... creepier side. But everyone raved, so I went. It's good. It finishes when Jackson finally freed himself from his father's tyranny, which probably explains a lot about his life. The last 15 minutes are pretty much just a concert, but his nephew Jaafar is a spitting image.***

Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition: A must-see for music fans, whether you're into heavy metal or not. This film is what biopics seldom are (Looking at you, Michael..) a warts-and-all documentary full of fabulous old footage, interviews with the band and commentators, the blood, sweat and tears years, and the rise, fall and rise again. New respect for a band I've always been ambivalent about. *****