Bright is a small town set in the Victorian mountains, its population is about three thousand and it relies heavily on tourism. It has a quaint Victorian feel to it but also has the feel of a town that relies heavily on the money tourists spend. It has more shops than Launceston and is generally more live.y in feel.
Bearing all this in mind it should therefore, be relatively easy to obtain a SIM card for a pay as you go mobile phone. We were directed to the post office where we were sold a card and feeling delighted with our purchase returned home. On opening the pack we discovered it had been opened before and that someone had cut the micro sim and made it a nano sim. The end result was that we had to return to the post office and ask for our money back.
We were then directed to a Telstra caravan which as luck would have it was parked for the day in the main car park. The guy there was very helpful found the relevant sim, sorted out enabling it online and put us onto the correct package.
Back home again we were able to pu money onto the phone and thus have an Australian phone number. It seems to me that nothing is ever as truly simple as it might be.
The scenery around Bright is magnificent, high hills and mountains, green treed.this with clear blue skies and small white clouds make it perfect in October.
I am particularly impressed with the way in which all the small Vistorian towns around look like towns you might have seen in a 1950's western movie, a wide walkway covered with a balcony to protect customers from rain and sun.
This was as you might have already imagined a quiet day after the trials and tribulations of the day's travel before.