Tanya Heaslip

We Czechs do not leave home.

And it's true, the majority of Czechs grow up and live where they've grown up and never, ever move.

Very Czechs, very few Czechs travel.

But they're the Czechs of the generation who couldn't.

Things are different now.

People are travelling.

I have spent my whole life travelling because, like most Australians, it was a rite of passage for us if we were lucky enough to go to uni or we wanted to see the outside world because we'd grown up with stories of the mother country.

It's normalny, as I'd say, for Australians to travel.

It was not normalny for Czechs.

So he couldn't understand and it was not something he could do.

But I've lived in so many places.

But I've now done the full circle and living now back in Alice Springs, which I was not sure I'd ever do having lived in so many places.

And I probably will not be there forever either.

But at this point in time, I'm very glad to be back in that red centre.

And what is home for you now?

What is your home like in Alice?

So I live just by the Todd River, this magnificent, wide, dry riverbed full of white ghost gums.

Behind me are the towering MacDonald Ranges.

I look out my window and there are beautiful mulga cassia bushes full of yellow flowers.

There's this enormous range just on the other side where you can go walking around.