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Ross Crockford spent four years in Prague in the early
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1990s, teaching English to supreme court judges and cartoon animators, and writing for The Prague Post. “It was the best job a reporter could want,” he says. “I went into coal mines and tank factories and hockey arenas, places that no Western journalist had ever been.” In this issue’s Travel Far section, Crockford explains why he keeps returning to Prague and provides some handy advice for first-time visitors.
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career with CBC Radio News in Yellowknife, NWT. She’s lived on the Saanich Peninsula for the past 16 years and still finds new and interesting places to visit within a day’s drive from home, such as the Skagit Valley for its Tulip Festival, which she writes about in this issue. Her stories and photographs appear in local and national publications as well as on her website, called Secrets From My Suitcase. Local author and arts writer Robert Moyes has had a decades-long interest in music and other arts. Since he first heard Beethoven’s string quartets, he has been in awe of the technical skill and collaborative intuition required to perform music of such exquisite complexity. Moyes says he felt privileged to meet and interview the members of Victoria’s acclaimed Lafayette String Quartet, who are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. Heather Reid is a Victoria writer and photographer who
has, at various times, also been a fisheries observer, a Christmas tree farmer, and an English teacher in South Korea. She’s also battled addictions to nicotine and jigsaw puzzles. In this issue, Reid explores whether addiction is a disease or simply part of the human condition. “I’m always surprised when I meet someone who is not addicted to anything — not even to caffeine — and it makes me think there’s a little bit of the addict in all of us,” says Reid. VB
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