Danyal at Toronto Pearson Airport — the adventure begins! Pearson is one of the busiest airports in North America, with over 50 million passengers every year. The destination: London, England — 6,800 kilometres away!
13 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/40s · f/1.7 · ISO 250
Passing the Duty Free shop at the airport — last stop before the gate. Duty Free shops sell things without any tax, a bit cheaper than in regular shops!
13 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/40s · f/1.7 · ISO 100
Grabbing a lemon loaf at the departure lounge — very important before a long flight! The flight from Toronto to London, England takes about 7 hours and 30 minutes.
13 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/40s · f/1.7 · ISO 160
Fuelling up before the overnight flight to London, England. The plane flies at about 900 km/h — fast enough to circle the entire Earth in less than 2 days!
13 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/40s · f/1.7 · ISO 160
Settled in on the overnight flight — London-bound under purple cabin lights. The plane flies at about 11,000 metres above the ground — that is 11 kilometres up in the sky, way above the clouds!
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Morning approach into Heathrow Airport — English countryside stretching out below the window. Everything is so green!
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Walking off the plane at Heathrow Airport in London — a sunny morning and a huge tarmac full of aircraft. Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe with over 1,300 planes taking off and landing every single day!
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First smile on UK soil — outside Heathrow Airport in London, England! Toronto to London is 6,800 kilometres. If you drove non-stop, it would take 3 whole days!
13 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/400s · f/1.7 · ISO 100
Danyal in front of a C-130 Hercules cargo plane from the Netherlands Air Force at RAF Cosford Airshow. This aircraft is enormous — it can carry 19,000 kg of cargo. That is the same weight as about 12 cars! It can fly for 7 hours without stopping for fuel.
14 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/4000s · f/1.7 · ISO 100
Watching the flying display at RAF Cosford Airshow. Over 70,000 people visit this airshow every single year — that is more people than live in all of Barrie or Guelph, showing up on the same day! There are more than 100 aircraft on display.
14 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/4000s · f/2 · ISO 100
Danyal with two Harrier jump jets! The Harrier is named after a bird of prey — a hawk that hovers silently over fields hunting for mice. These planes do exactly the same thing: they can hover in mid-air, take off and land straight up and down, then fly at over 1,000 km/h. There is nothing else like them.
14 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/4000s · f/2 · ISO 100
Danyal doing his bit for the environment at RAF Cosford — even at an airshow, recycling responsibly. In the UK, about 12 million tonnes of material is recycled every year!
14 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/3200s · f/2 · ISO 100
Danyal next to a Westland Wessex helicopter. It can carry up to 16 passengers and is about as big as a large bus. This type of helicopter was used for search and rescue — finding people lost at sea or in mountains and bringing them home safely.
14 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/4000s · f/2 · ISO 100
Danyal with a BAE Hawk T1 jet trainer — the exact same type of plane that the Red Arrows fly! The Hawk can travel at 1,028 km/h. That is almost as fast as the speed of sound. RAF pilots learn to fly jets on this aircraft before moving on to fast fighter planes.
14 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/4000s · f/2 · ISO 100
The Red Arrows — the RAF's famous aerobatic display team! There are exactly 9 planes and they fly SO close together that the wingtips are only 2 metres apart. That is the same as two cars parked side by side. They trail red, white and blue smoke and perform over 100 shows every year.
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Heading back from RAF Cosford — a great day out in the English countryside. After the airshow, we went to visit Danyal's Aunt Hina and her family in Cheltenham, in the west of England.
14 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/1250s · f/2 · ISO 100
Danyal at his favourite restaurant — Pizza Express at Brent Cross Shopping Centre, one of his must-visit spots whenever he comes to London. The dough balls are always the first thing ordered. Pizza Express has over 450 restaurants across the UK!
15 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/40s · f/1.7 · ISO 640
Outside the Pizza Express at Brent Cross Shopping Centre — one of London's biggest shopping centres with over 120 shops! Brent Cross has been a popular shopping destination for Londoners since it opened in 1976.
15 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/80s · f/2.8 · ISO 100
Danyal going down the long escalator at Bounds Green Underground station — heading to catch the Tube to Westminster for the river boat. The escalators on the London Underground can be up to 60 metres long — as tall as a 20-storey building!
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Father and son on the London Underground — matching Arsenal kits! The Underground, or 'the Tube', has 272 stations and 402 kilometres of track. About 5 million people use it every single day.
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Danyal deep in thought on the Underground. The London Underground first opened in 1863 — it is the oldest underground railway in the entire world! Some of the trains run through tunnels so deep that you can feel the pressure change in your ears.
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Danyal at the South Bank with the London Eye behind him. The London Eye is 135 metres tall and has 32 capsules. Each capsule can hold 25 people and one full spin takes 30 minutes. From the top you can see up to 40 kilometres in every direction!
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/200s · f/4.5 · ISO 100
Walking along the Thames Embankment. The River Thames is 346 kilometres long and flows all the way through London to the sea. At high tide in central London, the river is about 250 metres wide — wider than 12 swimming pools end to end!
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/250s · f/5 · ISO 100
Selfie on the river boat — the boat stops at several piers along the Thames to pick up more passengers. It travels 12 kilometres in total from Westminster all the way to Greenwich in London, England, passing some of the most famous buildings in the world on the way!
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On the open deck of the Westminster to Greenwich river boat with Big Ben behind him. Big Ben is the name of the huge bell inside the clock tower. It weighs 13 tonnes — the same as 2 elephants! Each clock face is 7 metres wide — as wide as a school bus is long!
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/320s · f/5.6 · ISO 100
With Dad on the Westminster to Greenwich river boat with the Houses of Parliament behind them. This huge building is where the laws of the UK are made. It has over 1,000 rooms, 100 staircases, and 11 courtyards — you could easily get lost in there!
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/400s · f/6.3 · ISO 100
Danyal on the boat deck with the London Eye in the background. The London Eye weighs 2,100 tonnes — heavier than 1,400 cars — but it spins so smoothly that you can barely feel it moving when you are inside.
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/320s · f/5.6 · ISO 100
Relaxing on the open deck of the Westminster to Greenwich river boat. The River Thames has 35 bridges crossing it in London. You can spot lots of famous buildings from the water that you can't see as well from the streets!
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/250s · f/5 · ISO 100
Passing under Southwark Bridge on the river. There are 35 bridges that cross the River Thames in London — each one a different size, shape and colour. This one is painted green and is made from steel and granite stone.
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Approaching London Bridge — you can see the name carved right into the stone! Did you know that the old London Bridge was taken apart stone by stone and shipped all the way to Arizona in America? It was rebuilt there and you can still visit it today!
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/160s · f/4 · ISO 100
Passing HMS Belfast — a huge warship that is now a floating museum on the Thames. It is 187 metres long — almost as long as 2 football pitches! You can go inside and explore all 4 decks. Its guns could fire a shell 21 kilometres away — that is further than the whole of central London!
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Tower Bridge — one of the most famous bridges in the world! The middle part opens up to let tall ships through — the two sides lift up to nearly vertical. It opens about 800 times every year. The bridge is 244 metres long and the towers are 65 metres tall.
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/320s · f/5.6 · ISO 100
With Dad by Tower Bridge on the Westminster to Greenwich river boat
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Further downstream on the Thames, heading toward Greenwich. The river flows east and gets wider as it gets closer to the sea. Greenwich is about 12 kilometres from Westminster by river — a great way to travel!
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/320s · f/5.6 · ISO 100
Cheese and mozzarella panini at Costa Coffee in Greenwich — a perfect stop! Costa Coffee has over 3,900 cafes across the UK. That is so many that if you visited one every day, it would take you over 10 years to go to all of them!
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/200s · f/1.7 · ISO 100
Danyal next to a big cast-iron cannon at the riverside in Greenwich. This area was very important for the Royal Navy — Greenwich is the home of the Prime Meridian, the imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude that every country in the world uses to set their clocks! Have you heard of Greenwich Mean Time?
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/400s · f/5.6 · ISO 100
Outside the Cutty Sark — a famous old sailing ship in Greenwich that you can go inside and explore! It was one of the fastest sailing ships in the world. Using only the wind, it could travel from China to London — a journey of 30,000 kilometres — in just 107 days!
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Greenwich Market — a covered market with over 120 stalls selling food, arts, crafts and antiques. Thousands of people visit every weekend. As you walk through you can smell freshly cooked food from all around the world — Thai, Ethiopian, Japanese, Mexican and more!
16 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/160s · f/4 · ISO 100
On the DLR — the Docklands Light Railway. The DLR is a train with NO driver — it runs completely automatically! Outside the window are the huge tower blocks of Canary Wharf, which is one of the biggest business areas in Europe. The tallest tower there is 235 metres high.
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Danyal on the DLR — making the most of the window seat on the driverless train. The DLR has 45 stations and carries about 120 million passengers every year. Because there is no driver, you can sit at the very front and watch the track ahead — it feels like you are driving it yourself!
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Inside the Natural History Museum in London — looking up at the 25-metre blue whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling! The museum is FREE to enter and has over 80 million objects inside, from tiny fossils to enormous dinosaur bones. The building is decorated with hundreds of carved stone animals.
18 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/80s · f/2.8 · ISO 100
The blue whale skeleton seen from above. Blue whales are the biggest animals that have EVER lived on Earth — they can weigh 200 tonnes and grow 33 metres long. A blue whale's heart is the size of a small car!
18 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/80s · f/2.8 · ISO 100
Danyal next to a fossil display of an ichthyosaur — a giant reptile that swam in the sea at the same time as the dinosaurs. This one was found by a girl named Mary Anning when she was just 12 years old! Ichthyosaurs could grow up to 15 metres long and lived 200 million years ago.
18 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/80s · f/2.2 · ISO 100
Danyal with Dippy the Diplodocus dinosaur outside the Natural History Museum! Dippy is a copy of a real skeleton found buried in the ground in Wyoming, USA. Diplodocus was one of the longest dinosaurs that ever lived — up to 27 metres long. That is about the same length as 4 school buses parked end to end!
18 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/1250s · f/2.2 · ISO 100
Another day, another lunchtime panini — this time at Costa Coffee in Arnos Grove. This is one tube stop past Bounds Green where Grandma and Grandpa's house is. We got off one stop later on purpose, because there is a Costa there.
18 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/40s · f/5.6 · ISO 800
After lunch we walked through Broomfield Park — the same park where Dad used to bring Danyal and his brother Zain when they were very young and the family lived in London. Some things never change!
18 Jun 2026 - Sony A6400 - Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 - 1/3200s · f/1.7 · ISO 100
Dinner at Wagamama in Wembley — Danyal went for the chicken noodles! Through the window you can see the famous Wembley Stadium arch. Wembley Stadium holds 90,000 people — it is the biggest football stadium in the UK. The arch over the stadium is 133 metres tall, which is higher than the Statue of Liberty!
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Danyal lining up a putt — a day out with Mum at crazy golf! Full concentration, Arsenal kit, red cap. The shot was made.
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Danyal with a life-size dinosaur watching at the crazy golf course — not your average London day out!
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Danyal outside Heathrow Terminal 3, ready to fly home after a brilliant week in London, England. All week people kept stopping to compliment him on his Arsenal kit — and rightly so. Arsenal are Champions! 🏆
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At the departure gate at Heathrow with the plane waiting outside. The Airbus A330 can carry up to 400 passengers and flies at 880 km/h. Heathrow Airport is the busiest in Europe with over 1,300 flights every single day!
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On the flight home — tablet out, headphones on, already watching something. London was worth every minute!
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