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It's Sunday at Prague's Old Town Square - the holiday season is well underway. A magnificent thirty metre tall evergreen, dubbed Charles the Great, this year's official Christmas tree, stands in front of the Tyn cathedral. It's biting weather but tourists warm themselves with grog and Turkish honey, as they wander among the Christmas market stalls. And, of course, the pony rides are back for the children, a coral with a llama, a donkey, and miniature goats eating straw, while the band plays Dixieland jazz.

Today's Mailbox includes: Topics: Public transport in Prague, increase in assault connected robbing, Christmas markets and shopping, Cerny Most housing site Quotes from: Debdatta Roy, Sheila Hughes, Jill Davies, Maria Rosso, John Billstone, Mauro Bertini.

Advent is a time when most Christmas exhibitions open throughout the Czech Republic to make people stop in the pre-Christmas hustle and bustle and think about the spiritual values of the season. One such exhibition opened last week at the Ceska sporitelna bank premises in the centre of Prague. Alena Skodova went along and brings this report:

In our special Christmas Eve programme on Radio Prague, will be talking to three generations of Czechs about what Christmas means to them, and and roll up their sleeves to cook the tradition Czech Christmas dinner - fried carp and potato salad.