Walking down to the sea on a beautiful sunny day with Aryan* – the young Afghan asylum seeker who lives with me – we were elated.
He had just had his asylum application fast-tracked, so we were taking in the waterfalls around us in North Devon to celebrate.
Aryan said, ‘This looks just like my province of Kunar’. Like Exmoor – where we live – Kunar is very green and hilly, with the water running through lovely wooded areas all the way down towards the sea.