SERBIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER (Reuters) - Covered in mosquito bites from nights spent out in the open, two girls from Syria, one six and one eight, lay on blankets in a grove of cherry and apricot trees in northern Serbia waiting for the next leg of their long journey to begin.
In a few hours, the girls, in matching grey track suits with the word "Hollywood" in blue lettering across the chest, would set off with a group of other migrants to try to cross illegally into Hungary.
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