Spring break

French-speaking Belgians pick Greece for spring break

Greece is among the travel destinations of choice for French-speaking Belgians' spring break, according to a report from the RTL network.

"Spain, Greece, Morocco or Tunisia. These are the top spring break destinations," reported RTL, with Your Travel head Hedy Hafsia talking about a change in the destinations chosen by Belgium's French-speaking community.

Millions of students back in school after short break

More than 18 million students and nearly a million teachers are set to return to schools today with the end of the two-week mid-term break that started on Jan. 21.

In-person education will resume at all schools throughout the country as the pandemic is still raging, and the bells will be ringing in a total of 850,000 classrooms in all schools in 81 provinces.

Around the globe, virus cancels spring travel for millions

They are the annual journeys of late winter and early spring: Factory workers in China heading home for the Lunar New Year; American college students going on road trips and hitting the beach over spring break; Germans and Britons fleeing drab skies for some Mediterranean sun over Easter.

All of it canceled, in doubt or under pressure because of the coronavirus.

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