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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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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Zinkenwirt Gmerk, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. Aysha and her daughters are now in Germany. The landscape remind me of the movie “The Sound of Music”  They walked few meters to a bus station where they were planning to take the bus to the nearest train station and fro there to continue to Munich. Few minutes after this picture was taken a van of the Bavarian State Police came and pic them up. They were taken to a refugee first welcome centre where I would meet them few hours later. Then we took the train to Munich where the were taken to the refugee centre. I wouldn’t meet them for 5 months.
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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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  • 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, 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 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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  • 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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  • Night, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha plays with her daughters in the train compartment. This particular car is full of Afghan teenagers, some of there are loud and fights between them start. Aysha is scared.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Aysha made it to Germany, her final destination. I thought they would be happy to take a picture under the sign, but both her and the kids were exhausted from the long uphill walk.
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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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  • 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. 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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  • 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, 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, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha just crossed into Hungary and she has a little rest under the trees before going to a field where buses are waiting to take the refugees to the Austrian border. A Syrian teenager who was carrying Sham during the long march on the rail line, is giving her 2 cans of condensed milk that was given to him in Greece by volunteers.
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  • Afternoon, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha and her daughters are on a train in the small station of Röszke. After they crossed the Hungarian border, the police boarded them on old Ikarus buses that took them to the train station. They waited on the bus for 2 hours until a policeman escort them to the train compartments. * iPhone photo *
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  • Monday, 14 September 2015. Aysha carries Bisan on the long march from Horgos in Serbia to the Hungarian border. There is a constant flow of people walking on the abandoned railway tracks, rushing to get into Hungary before the border closes to undocumented migrants and refugees.
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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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  • 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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  • Afternoon, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha looks from the window of the train that is waiting at the station of Röszke. This is the last train to leave Röszke since Hugary will close it’s borders few hours later.  * iPhone photo *
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  • Noon, Monday 14th of September 2015. The bus from Beograd to Kanjiža stopped at the village of Bečej near the Serbian - Hungarian border. Aysha is washing the girls in the sink of the public toilet. There is a big queue as everyone wants to use the toilets after the long journey.
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  • Early morning, Monday 14th of September 2015. We arrived at Belgrade and hit the rush hour traffic. Bisan woke up and start crying.
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  • Noon, Monday 14th of September 2015. The bus from Belgrade to Kanjiža is full of refugees and migrants heading to border. One of them is a man from Daraa with a broken leg. Few hours later I see him walking with crutches on the disused rail line, it must have taken him few hours.
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  • Morning, Monday 14th of September 2015. On the bus to Kanisha. Aysha looks at the pretty villages of Vojvodina. The bus is a local one and stops in many villages on the way, so it takes double the time to go to the border. After 3 hours Aysha is start getting very worried.
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  • Morning, Monday 14th of September 2015. Belgrade central train station. The bus from Preshevo left us outside the central bus station of Belgrade next to the train station. Aysha bought a ticket to the bus to Kanisha and the went to exchange her dollars to Euros. She was stressed that we won’t make it in time to Hungarian border. There where rumours that the border will close at noon and rumours that it will close at midnight.
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  • Ten o’clock at night,  Sunday 13th of September 2015. Aysha boarded one of the busses that were waiting outside the camp. The ticket was 25 euros for us 22 for others. Nobody gave any receipt. There where about 8 buses with the engines running, they looked full but none was leaving. The driver said that he is waiting for 2 more people to fill up and then we will go. There were many refugees coming out of the camp but nobody come to our bus. We waited for 1 ½ hour.
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  • Night, Sunday 13th of September 2015. After an hour waiting in the queue with the girls Aysha came back from the hospital. Because of her condition she got the registration papers without waiting. The doctors told her that there is nothing to worry about but she needed rest. She is worried that the Hungarian border will close tomorrow so she decided to carry on. While we were waiting outside the camp entrance locals were asking us if we need a lift to Belgrade, they looked dodgy and we refused. Later on the trip we met a Syrian who went with one of those “taxis” and he got robbed.
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  • Night, Sunday 13th of September 2015. I met Aysha outside the entrance of the registration camp in Preshevo, about two hours after we parted in the Macedonian-Serbian border. Her belly was swollen and she was bleeding. A Serbian officer took her to the hospital, she asked me to go and find the girls at the queue and look after them. The girls were happy to see me.
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  • Sunday 13th of September 2015, afternoon. Aysha is carrying Bisan through a field meters away from the Macedonian - Serbian border. About an hour ago a train full of immigrants and refugees arrived at the border village of Slanishte after 4 hrs of travelling across the Republic of Macedonia. A group of Danish volunteers gave Aysha a pram to carry her daughters. The path is uneven and it will take her more than an hour to walk to the Serbian town of Preshevo.
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  • Afternoon, Sunday 13th of September 2015. Aysha is looking at me after she crossed into Serbian territory. We said goodbye to each other since we don’t know if we will meet on the other side of the border. The sun is getting down and it’s getting cold.
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  • Sunday 13th of September 2015. A Kurdish man is washing his face minutes after he alight from the Gevgelija to Slanishte train in the Republic of Macedonia.
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  • Sunday 13th of September 2015. A migrant boy looks out of the train window as the train of refugees and migrants passes through the Republic of Macedonia.
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  • Noon, Sunday 13th of September 2015. Sham and Bisan sleep on Aysha’s lap. They are on a special train just for refugees and immigrants from Gevgelija to Slanishte , across the Republic of North Macedonia. The train was packed,when Aysha got in. All the seats of the car were taken by young men from Iraq and Afghanistan. Aysha was displeased but she didn’t protest. Somebody from the train said to a man to give his seat for Aysha, he did so reluctantly. There was no toilet on the train and no one had any idea were it goes or how long the journey will be.
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  • Noon, Sunday 13th of September 2015. Sham looks at me, few minutes ago she was crying.  They are on a special train just for refugees and immigrants from Gevgelija to Slanishte , across the Republic of Macedonia. It’s overcrowded, hot and there are no lights, so everytime we pass through a tunnel is pitch black and the girls are scared.
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  • Noon, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha buys crisps for the girls at the Bečej bus station. The bus stopped for half an hour and everyone is buying sandwiches and drinks. Before the refugee influx this provincial bus station was very quiet.
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  • Night, Sunday 13th of September 2015. We waited for 1 ½ hour and the finally the bus left, but few hundred meters down the road it was stopped by a plain cloth policeman and made us return. The excuse was that some people onboard didn’t have the registration papers. We waited for one more hour while every 10 minutes the driver was saying that we are living now. People got upset and finally the driver said he is not leaving and forced us to alight. We went to the next bus where the some thing happened. Finally at a third bus and 5 hours later we left.
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  • Afternoon of Sunday 13 September 2015. Aysha and her two daughters Sham (L) and Bisan (R) waiting at the regional bus station of Polykastro in Kilkis to board a bus that will take them to their final destination in Greece, the village of Idomeni by the border. The station master told me that since the refugees and migrants started using the Balkan route their bus company which was at the brink of bankruptcy became profitable again.
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