Prague is what defines the Czech Republic, but Czesky Krumlov may be the next best thing.  Maybe even better.  Not a tour bus in sight, and nobody is trying to coax you into their restaurant with spaghetti.  The river was all ours as we fed the ducks, and ducked out of the cold into a medieval stone cellar for onion soup and warm mugs of mead.

Castle:  check.

Cobblestones:  check.

Weird metal sculptures of naked people and teeth:  Why do we keep taking the boys into these art exhibits?!  Bad parents, we are!  But anyway, stretching our minds with the perspective of an interesting modern artist, Miroslav Paral:  Czech.  I mean Check!