Whitley Bay, 1978 Luskačová was born in Prague and has lived most of her adult life in the UK. She writes:‘I was 17 when I saw the sea for the first time. It was from the window of a night train from Prague to Varna, Bulgaria, where my aunt Lidka lived. I was asleep when there was a commotion. People were shouting: ‘The sea, the sea!’ I looked from the window: it was dawn, and everything I saw was blue, there was no horizon, no line between the sea and the sky, just blue. The vastness of the blue was overwhelming.’