I love Prague. You're walking around town, and you hear American jazz, folk and blues, and then you hear polkas, and accordions and all types of klezmer, and a classical string quartet ... what a scene! I was lucky enough to be a chaperone for my daughter's choir, and they sang in St. Nicolas church, right on the old town square--it's like something out of a fairy tale.

One of my favorite history lessons I learned while on the tour of the city was the origin of getting rid of unpopular leaders through the practice of 'defenestration,' from the Italian word 'finestra' meaning window--throw them out the window!