Migrants making their way across Europe are finding a harsher environment than they perhaps expected, and not just politically either. As the weather begins to turn, with freezing rain and snow expected across many European countries in the next few weeks, the migrants who paid discount rates to get into Europe are no doubt beginning to wonder why they bothered coming in the first place.
What follows are some of the latest images, courtesy of the Getty picture agency, from across Europe:
Migrants and refugees, who spent the night outdoors, are escorted by Slovenian soldiers and police officers AFP PHOTO STRINGER
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Migrants are escorted by police through fields towards a holding camp in the village of Dobova on October 26, 2015 in Rigonce, Slovenia (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
PRESHEVO, SERBIA – OCTOBER 26: The sun rises over Preshevo close to the border with Macedonia on October 26, 2015 in Preshevo, Serbia. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
PRESHEVO, SERBIA – OCTOBER 26: Migrants who have just crossed the border with Macedonia walk towards the village of Miralovac on October 26, 2015 in Preshevo, Serbia. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
PRESHEVO, SERBIA – OCTOBER 26: Migrants who have just crossed the border with Macedonia walk towards the village of Miralovac on October 26, 2015 in Preshevo, Serbia. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
PRESHEVO, SERBIA – OCTOBER 26: Migrants who have just crossed the border with Macedonia walk towards the village of Miralovac on October 26, 2015 in Preshevo, Serbia. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Refugees and migrants arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on October 26, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
Refugees and migrants arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on October 26, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
Refugees and migrants arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on October 26, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
Migrants and asylum seekers board a train heading to Croatia after crossing the Macedonian-Serbian border near the town of Bujanovac on October 26, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ARMEND NIMANI
Migrants and asylum seekers queue to board a train heading to Croatia after crossing the Macedonian-Serbian border near the town of Bujanovac on October 26, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ARMEND NIMANI
Migrants and asylum seekers board a train heading to Croatia after crossing the Macedonian-Serbian border near the town of Bujanovac on October 26, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ARMEND NIMANI
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Migrants Crowd Around a Shrine (Getty)
Migrants Cram Into A Bus (Getty)
The queue for just one bus (Getty)
Migrants and refugees cross the Serbian-Croatian border in the village of Berkasovo, near North-Western Serbian town of Sid, on October 26, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ELVIS BARUKCIC
Migrants who have arrived on a train from Gevgelija on the Greek border walk past a map and towards the Serbian border on October 25, 2015 in Tabanovce, Macedonia. Despite the worsening weather, thousands of migrants are crossing through the Former Republic Of Macedonia as they continue their journey on towards western Europe. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
A information sign is displayed at Tabanovce railway station on October 25, 2015 in Tabanovce, Macedonia. Despite the worsening weather, thousands of migrants are crossing through the Former Republic Of Macedonia as they continue their journey on towards western Europe. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Members of the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR (L) distribute fruit and beverages to migrants and refugees as they walk to cross the Croatia-Slovenia border near the Croatian border town of Kljuc Brdovecki on October 25, AFP PHOTO / STRINGER
Two men wearing protective suits desinfect the road after migrants and refugees were escorted down the road to a refugee center after crossing the Croatian-Slovenian border near Rigonce, Slovenia, on October 25, 2015. The European Union will ‘start falling apart’ if it fails to take concrete action to tackle the migrant crisis within the next few weeks, Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar warned on October 25. AFP PHOTO / JURE MAKOVEC
A migrant woman dries her clothes outside a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) tent, while waiting to board a train heading to Serbia from the Macedonian-Greek border. AFP PHOTO / ROBERT ATANASOVSKI (Photo credit should read ROBERT ATANASOVSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Migrants Are Led On By Police (Getty)
Migrants who have just crossed the Greek border light fires to keep warm as they wait outside a refugee reception centre set up close to the railway station on October 24, 2015 in Gevgelija, Macedonia. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Police escort migrants and asylum seekers as they walk to a refugee centre after crossing the Croatian-Slovenian border (Makovec/AFP/Getty Images)
Migrants play football while they are held back by the police near the village of Rigonce (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Migrants attempt to keep warm next to a fire (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Migrants are escorted through fields by police and the army (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Migrants who have arrived from Greece buy tickets to board a train (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Around 2000 migrants who arrived by train, walk near the border town of Kljuc Brdovecki, on October 24, 2015, to cross the Croatia-Slovenia border (Photo credit AFP/Getty Images)
Migrants who have arrived from Greece leave on a train bound for the Serbian border on October 24, 2015 in Gevgelija, Macedonia. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Migrants who have arrived from Greece leave on a train bound for the Serbian border on October 24, 2015 in Gevgelija, Macedonia (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Taxis wait to take migrants who have arrived from Greece, onwards to the Serbian border on October 24, 2015 in Gevgelija, Macedonia (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Migrants and refugees wait to be transported to a refugee center after crossing the Croatian-Slovenian border (Photo credit: Jure Makovec/AFP/Getty Images)
A group of migrants wait to enter the Slovenian-Austrian border crossing refugee camp of Spielfeld, Austria (Photo credit: VLADIMIR SIMICEK/AFP/Getty Images)
Migrants are held at the village of Rigonce, after crossing over from Croatia (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Migrants are held at the village of Rigonce (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Migrants are held back by the police near the village of Rigonce,before being walked to Brezice (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Refugees and migrants walk by a train along rail tracks after leaving a refugee camp at the border with Slovenia (Photo: Vladimir Simicek,Vladimir Simicek/AFP/Getty Images)
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