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He asked me about life in Syria. I told him about my beehives in Aleppo.
‘This shop is what the world would smell like if there were no humans.’
But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.
To stay in the UK as a refugee you must be unable to live safely in any part of your own country because you fear persecution there.
‘It was cold but sunny today! Now it’s raining! This English weather is like a madman!
In the summer of 2016, and again in 2017, I found myself in Athens, working as a volunteer in a refugee centre.