An East Lothian father and daughter have arrived at the Ukrainian border after an exhausting three-day drive.
Rachel Eadie, 22 and her father Fraser, 52, have spent the last few days and nights travelling across Europe with local donations for refugees.
Horrified by the ongoing Russian invasion, the family decided to collect essential items and drive them across multiple borders in a bid to help.
Working with the Fire Station, in Poland, the pair told Edinburgh Live they have finally reached their destination, and helped to offload the goods with volunteers.
The Station is one of many sites in Poland who border Ukraine, and are the first point of contact for the thousands fleeing out of the war zone.
Leaving on Monday (March 14), Rachel and Fraser finally arrived at the depot on Wednesday, after making it to Poland at around 1am in the morning following a "scary" last leg on the German Autobahn.
Speaking on Tuesday night, Fraser said in a video: “That’s probably been the hardest drive I’ve ever done in my life, it was 12 and a half hours' driving.
“Coming across Holland was fine, it was no problem at all, but then we hit the Autobahns coming across Germany, that was scary in some places.
“Once nighttime came down the rain then came on, torrential rain, and I didn’t realise but the Autobahns don’t have any cats eyes and there was a lot of surface water on the road. With the glare you couldn’t see the separate lanes so it was really difficult to tell if you were in lane.
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“All the lorries were going religiously at 60mph but you had cars and vans passing you at speeds ranging from 70mph to 140mph plus, it’s amazing how much the van gets buffeted when a vehicle passes you that quickly. But once we crossed into the Poland the roads were fantastic, what a difference.”
After an immense journey, the pair shared the moments they were able to deposit the donations given from people all around their local community with the Fire Station.
Images shared with Edinburgh Live showed the pair helping firefighters unload the van packed full of goods, with the items vital for the thousands of refugees that have flooded into the small town in Poland.
Fraser added: "The guys there are lovely, they've been working 20 hour shifts so they can get the aid out to everyone. That small town has 22,000 refugees now in the town so every little bit of product they can get is helping someone.
"Thank you so much to everyone who donated, every part of what we have delivered is going to go to great use."
Now heading back to Scotland, Rachel and Fraser have already begun the second leg of their 2,500 mile trip around Europe, and hope to return to East Lothian on Saturday.
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