An enlgishwoman abroad

Lindsay Hawdon’s travel column, An Englishwoman Abroad, began in The Sunday Telegraph in the year 2000 with the launch of its new travel section.  It ran for seven years and featured a series of weekly tales about the people she had come across in far-flung places [A Down-syndrome child in Kerela addicted to the smell of suntan lotion; a boy who died in his mother’s arms on a bus journey across Tanzania, a ride in South Africa with a man smuggling gold into the country.] They were small vignettes that gave insight into the life of a country through one small human moment.