When the magical worlds of Alice Springs and Prague collided

<p>Writer Tanya Heaslip on swapping life on an Alice Springs station for the fairytale streets of Prague, and the remarkable parallels she found between these two magical worlds.</p><p>Tanya was in a pub in London in 1989 when she watched on the television as the Berlin Wall came down.</p><p>She was the tail end of a solo backpacking trip, which didn’t quite live up to what she’d imagined it might be as a little girl growing up on a remote cattle station …