Around 650,000 children and young people in Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Salzburg, Upper Austria, Carinthia and Styria start their nine-week summer vacation on Friday after the certificate distribution. This means that one week after the start of the holiday in eastern Austria, all schoolchildren in the country are now free. School starts again in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland on September 5th, in the other federal states on September 12th.
As usual, a strong travel weekend is likely to be on the roads again from Friday afternoon. By Saturday morning at the latest, the motorist clubs are forecasting congestion on the main traffic routes in western and southern Austria. Longer waiting times are predicted for entry into Croatia, for example, and the Formula 1 Grand Prix around Spielberg is likely to cause traffic jams.
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