When Julie Sangani moved to Cardiff in 2008 it felt like a world away from her home city of Mumbai. She and her husband, Shardul Pandit, arrived by coach on a quiet Sunday evening and were dropped off in the city centre.
"We were very, very new from India. Mumbai is a very fast city. When I came here it was a very quiet life... I remember we got down by City Hall. I couldn't even see anybody on the road and I thought: 'Oh my God, are there people living in this country?'" she laughed.
It was a solitary start at first for the pair as they established their new life. "We did not know any Indian family apart from one or two people. Quite a lot of the time I was all alone and there was the language barrier.
