On Tuesday we met with Nadine Syrett, George's sister in law, in Brusells who took the family to her home in Paris where they are being looked after superbly. Damir is learning English being taught by Nadine's children and they are planning on coming to the UK once Boris sorts out the papaerwork to live in Downton.

It became immediately apparent at the station that almost all femal refugees did not trust men trying to help them. So i had a word with a charity worker from the World Central Kitchen to help me find suitable people in need and managed to pay for taxis to take them to their onward destination with the furthest being Warsaw.( see photo) It took about 15 minutes for me to convince her that there was no hidden agenda by accepting the donation with the help of one of the other refugees we had arranged to collect acting as translator.

What an exhausting trip from Przemysl to Wroclaw arriving at 10pm with Olena, Olesya and her son Damir aged 6. They broke into tears in delight that they could have a shower after spending 5 nights in the underground sleeping on the platform followed by a train trip that should have taken 2 hours but took 21 hours and had no seat at all. absolutely horrendous journey but we fed them all and they had a good nights sleep. This built their trust in us and with the visa situation saying go to Paris,George’s brother offered his family house for them