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It wasn’t the reunion we expected.  When Colin and I visited my Syrian family in Aleppo 8 years ago, after having rowed our boats and ridden our bikes from Scotland to get there, we thought we would return a few years later on our Olive Odyssey journey.  But by the time we launched our sailboat […]

As some of you are aware, my uncle and his wife and three kids have been enduring the civil war in Aleppo, Syria. Their apartment block was situated on the frontlines between government forces and rebels. Bomb blasts, dead bodies and violence was their new reality. The windows in their apartment were blown out, and […]