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

I Play Rocky: Is there no end to the Rocky franchise?! This one has the twist of telling the origin story of the Rocky movies, with Anthony Ippolito playing Silvester Stallone as a young struggling actor with his brilliant screenplay about a boxer...  it's tough, sweet and funny. ****

Wild Horse Nine - a sometimes meandering movie set on Easter Island/Rapa Nui starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as CIA agents involved with the 1973 coup to overthrow Allende in Chile. The bickering dialogue has some gems and a couple of twists to keep you hooked. ***

Sense & 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. ****