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Heading off to Bright

So today am heading off to my next work placement as part of the STA Travel 'Earn Your Stripes'. This is working at the Bright Brewery, in Bright. This is a small town up in the mountains of the Great Dividing Range, about 5 hours from Melbourne. When I get to the train station to find my train, I find out that it has been cancelled and I will be traveling on a bus the whole way (reason being I find out is they are rebuilding part of the railway).

Now I have spent a lot of my time traveling on buses so I like to think I am something of an expert on these sort of things. So it was very nice to get on a bus which was clean, smoke free, and although some of the roads at times were bumpy, I was actually able to sleep on board it, something I was unable to do most of the time in Indonesia, due to the rollercoaster feel to the ride.

So get in to Bright and wander around and see a sign to where I am staying at the 'Bright Hikers Backpackers' now that is a mouthful to say, and I do not plan on trying that when drunk. So Bright I come here with high expectations after all the great things the volunteers at the NSM have told me about the place, and to be honest they are right, okay yes I come from the country anyway, so I feel more at home here than I do in Melbourne, but is the sort of place which has that friendly feel to it.