I almost gave up searching for my first best friend: 25 years on, we found each other

When Gabriella met Natsumi they had no shared language - but that did not stop them from becoming fast friends

When my family first landed in Perth at the start of January, it was 40C. The stifling heat was such a contrast to the European winter we had left behind.

It's one of the things I remember about migrating to Australia with my mum and step-dad when I was six; that and the extremely long flight leaving Budapest - with stopovers in Helsinki, Karachi and Singapore.