Tanya Heaslip

Ah, yes.

Well, that was pretty wild because by then everyone had had enough and so lots of alcohol was smuggled in and there was a very wild party and girls got out on the roof and smoking.

It's like, what the hell?

We're going home tomorrow.

They can't do anything more to us now.

But they could to the very last minute.

The headmistress controlled us and came in and threatened to strip me and a number of others off.

of our prefect badges.

We had to ring our parents in her office and confess what we'd done.

And then we went to the last valedictory service in shame and disgrace, to the last minute, this school.

So you finished school.

You go on.

You become a lawyer.

Yeah.

And then in your late 20s, you quit.

You walked away.

You decided you wanted to travel.

It sounds like you had this kind of Tolkien-like image of Europe from those little pictures in the School of the Air, this magical little alpine peak and a nice cute little house on it and all the greenery and forest.

No, Europe's not like that, is it?

No, it's not like that.