Remember to check the Trust website

                                                                       http://www.wcmt.org.uk/

                                           
                                            It could be yor turn next-I wish you well.

                                             Yours, Jane Roberts, Churchill Fellow 2010.

Goodbye spectacular Sydney; goodbye awesome Australia

Tomorrow morning we leave for the airport and our final journey home.

A heartfelt thanks to Jill, the hostess with the biggest heart for such a warm welcome.

Thank you to the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust  for the Fellowship of a lifetime and the the most amazing experience.

Thank you to all my blog followers.

It's been wonderful .

Goodbye from Freya and I.

More Sunday pictures...

Final day of Fellowship visits tomorrow....

Sunday in Sydney

Wonderful to have the chance to explore this amazing city and in glorious sunshine too.
Freya and I began the day at TARONGA zOO which has an unparalleled location situated above the harbour.
We spent many hours wandering amonsgt the shade and sun to see giraffes, elephants, gorillas and chimps;along with australian bush life and the nocturnal animals.
We loved the platypus, the bilaby, the potaroo and the wallaby.
Then we caught the Ferry across the bay to Circular Quay and wandered down tO the Opera HoUsE
which was bustling with glitterati because of the Aussie Grammy awards. we finished our treat of  a day at The Rocks,
a popular tourist destination bult on the site of the earliest areas of colonization and steeped in mid 1850s history. 

Lunch with three professors

Today was celebrated with a convivial lunch party , again hosted by Jill at which we were joined by Professors John Hamilton, David Powys and Jill, of course;all luminaries in medical educiation on the global stage.
We feasted on an abundance of homegrown summer fruits and Aussie ice-cream and looked both backwards and forwards at happy times and challenges ahead .
Hoping for sun tomorrow to further explore this tantalsing city.

First day in Sydney

We have arrived in Sydney!
We landed between showers and the weather has been disappointing but more than compensated
for by the warmest of welcomes from Jill Gordon and her family.
Friday saw Freya and I negotiating the public transport system-old hands now-and I met the Manager of the Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health
based at the Childdren's Hospital.Fiona discussed the provision of Youth Health Services in New South wales,
different again to what I had encountered in South Australia and Victoria.
She then outlined the work of the Centre: applied research; policy; training and resources and talked in detail about the
education for GPs programme.
This new 12 hour series of modules is currently being piloted in a rural region and is soon to be trialled in central Sydney.
I will watch the outcome with anticipation as the intention of the CAAH is to make the programme available outside of NSW
with the overarching aim being improving the quality of care offered to young people;
wheverer they live.
After lunch Freya and I then set off to explore the city. We jumped on the monorail; browsed in paddy's market; walked round Darling Harbour; glimpsed the Chinese Friendship garden-
sadly now raining heavily ; before we caught the train back to Jill's gracious and inviting house to spend the evening together.

Arriving in Sydney

We are here-I am having a number of difficulties with wifi and donwloading the photos-so test will follow!