My Country Life

I had been living in the city for what the whole of my life, that was until February that I took up a job in Clare Valley where I did a bit of wine making.

Well I loved my country life. I loved living on top of a hill and basically having no other houses from the front yard in sight, while only a bit more than 5 minutes drive from Clare where you can get almost all your everyday needs (except nightlife of course, but I don't care about it that much really). I also kept my place back in Adelaide where I can crash for most of the weekends so I don't get too alienated from friends and stuff (more like keeping the connection of me with the city). Although the 2 hour drive each way does lose paint after a while. I did spend some weekends up in the country and had fun, the thing is I don't really have people the share the fun with up in the country. My friends don't really wanna drive all the way up there to catch up with me and I have not made that many new friends outside of work. Well that's when the weekend drive back to the city comes to rescue anyway so it worked out fine.

My job is not as hard as I expected I guess, the winery I work in is a bit small and it doesn't run 24/7 even on the busiest of vintage, so the longest day I've had there was 7am - 6 pm and there was never night shifts, and I've heard people calling those shifts short while they usually take up 12-14 hours per day, and a lot of night shifts as well. The good side is that for a noob like me I don't feel too stressed out on my first vintage but the down side is obviously that I don't earn as much as expected due to not having too much overtime. It had been a pretty good experience for me and I am definitely going back in the country next year for another vintage.

The bottom line is, I didn't find country life that bad after all, and I don't really mind doing it more full on next time.