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| Migrants charge their phones at a UNHCR transit camp on the Greece-Macedonia border |
Registration doesn't take long. Refugees and migrants stood in queues under some tents at midnight, and then were registered by the police, who took passport details. If people didn't have passports or any ID at all, they filled in a form, which took longer because they need translators.
The arrival of buses with refugees and migrants increases at night, despite the cold. Between midnight and 3:30 am (when I left the camp) about 10 buses came, carrying mostly Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis.
I asked a policemen what he thought about all of these people arriving in his country. "These women and children deserve protection but why do men come?" he asked. "They need to stay in their country and fight. We had war here about 20 years ago and we didn't leave our country."
This is the answer I received when I asked a policeman in Macedonia the same question.
Having said that I was a journalist I was not allowed into the camp so I talked to some volunteers outside, mainly students from Germany, Finland and Sweden. They too were having trouble getting in to the camp.
"You can help effectively by doing small things, making them feel important, letting them feel that everything will be good eventually," one of them said.
The volunteers helped me find a taxi to take me to the nearest hotel, 20 km away from the camp in a small town called Vukovar. It was almost morning when I got there.
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