What were your reasons if I may ask?

I needed a change of pace and wanted to do something new and interesting, then I met a lady here on a trip, so I took the opportunity :)

Prague as well, at least we didn't have to mark it as eastern Europe.

Same here, out of the UK a couple of years earlier

cheers, me too, except I am from Turkey.

Czech, too, closer to Brno, though.