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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. After 3 days without internet finally Aysha connects with her husband in Syria and tells him the news, that they arrived safely in Austria.
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  • Early morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. The Hungarian train stopped at the station of Hegyeshalom  at 3:25 in the morning. A policeman wake up Aysha and told her to move out of the train. There was police everywhere in the station. It was foggy and the lights were dim. The refugees start waking silently through the streets of the small village. At every crossroad there was a policeman to show them the way and make sure that none will stay in Hungary. At the end of the village a policeman showed them a dark bicycle route to Austria. Aysha was walking for more that an hour in the darkness until she saw the lights in the Austrian border.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha and her kids arrive at the back of Vienna central station were a temporary welcome centre has been set up. There are volunteers who give information, food and psychological support.  There are hundreds of people there, reuniting, reorganising and using the free wifi to contact their families and friends.
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  • Afternoon, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. After waiting in the Vienna central station for hours to buy a next day train ticket to Munich, Aysha finally rents an apartment for the night. They didn’t have a shower or sleep in a bed since they left Thessaloniki 3 days ago.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Aysha is few meters away from the Austrian - German border. Sham starts to run to Germany.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Aysha and her girls walk up the steep hill about a kilometre away from the German border.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Since the border near Salzburg is closed, Aysha decides to go to a small Austrian town and try to cross from there. So they took a train to Hallein and from there a bus to ski resort. When they got off the bus they were really impressed by the green countryside so sake asked me to take a picture of her as a souvenir.
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  • Night, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. After having a shower and a cooked supper, 3 1/2 year old Sham fells asleep in the bed in the rented apartment in Vienna.
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  • Morning, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Aysha makes coffee that she brought from Syria before leaving for the train station to catch the train to Munich.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. The train stops at Salzburg and the conductor tells everyone to alight. The German border is temporarily closed but Aysha doesn’t know that yet.
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  • Morning, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. On the train from Vienna to Munich. Sham sleeps on her mother, while Aysha is relaxed since the most difficult part of her journey is over. She looks at the Austrian landscape and smiles.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Vienna central station. Hundreds of refugees and migrants are waiting at the central hall of the station. This woman in her nineties traveled all the way from Afghanistan with her family.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha meets a woman who was in the same boat with her from Turkey to Greece and haven’t seen her since. They share their traveling experience and they are worried about the future. Where to go and how.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Vienna central station. After days of travelling without access to electricity or internet the refugees and migrants who arrive at the station charge their phones so they can contact their relatives and friends and tell them that they are safe and get information about the rest of the journey.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. At the central station of Vienna there is a huge queue of refugees and migrants waiting to buy a ticket to Germany. Their families and friends are sleeping everywhere at the station. Hundreds of exhausted people.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha negotiates with a Turkish Taxi driver the price to Vienna. Finally they settle at € 150. Later in the day another Taxi driver told me that the ride should’t cost more that €50.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. On the motorway to Vienna we see a group of Afghan teenagers who could’t afford a Taxi ride to Vienna. They walk on the hard shoulder.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha took a taxi to Vienna, together with the three Syrian teenagers who were helping her carry her kids from Serbia to Hungary. As soon as the taxi drove off everyone fell asleep.
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  • Morning, Tuesday, 15 September 2015. Aysha walks at dawn with her two daughters from Nickelsdorf refugee temporary shelter to a petrol station where they could take a taxi to Vienna.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Aysha and her girls walk up the steep hill about a kilometre away from the German border.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Salzburg train station. Aysha finds out from other refugees that the border of Germany is closed. She is worried again.
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  • Noon, Tuesday 15th of September 2015.  Aysha hugs her two daughters outside the main entrance of Vienna central station. She was waiting at the queue for hours while I was taking care of the girls. After 2 hours they became nervous and wanted to see their mother, so Aysha found someone to wait for her in the queue and she came out to see the girls.
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