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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Clothes hanging between the flag masts of Idomeni railway station. Many families have moved in the old train station since the main transit camp is overcrowded. <br />
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Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling.
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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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  • A man from Pakistan is sitting at the railway tracks in Idomeni train station. <br />
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Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling.
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  • A group of Indians drinking beers and dancing at the railway tracks n Idomeni train station. <br />
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Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling.
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  • Afternoon, Sunday 13 September 2015. Aysha walks on the Idomeni train station towards the border. A UNHCR officer approach hers and tells her that what she is about to do (cross the border) is illegal. Aysha is confused.
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  • A man sleeping under an abandoned railcar in Idomeni train station. <br />
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Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling.
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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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  • 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, 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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