Last day in Steyr シュタイヤ最後の日

I stayed in Steyr to hand over my sofa to a person, then I had only vacant rooms in my apartment. I took a walk around my neighborhood, went to the forest I used to take a walk all through the year, said hello and thank to the people in the Chinese restaurant close to my house, they treated me as if I were their family member. Their children are so tamed to me, it was hard to tell them that I would not come back to Steyr, maybe they are still too young to understand what I would say. I still clearly remember when I first saw more than a dozen trouts tossing each other in this narrow and shallow brook with their fin on the back above the surface of the water but maybe I cannot see them this year. And it is the start of the Schubert festival in Steyr.

ソファーを手渡すためにシュタイヤーに泊まり、これでアパートは空っぽの部屋だけに。近所を散歩する。年中散歩をした森へ行ってみる。近所の中華料理屋へ行って挨拶とありがとうを。家族の一員のように扱ってくれた。子供たちもとても懐いていて、シュタイヤーには戻ってこないと正直に言うのはつらかった、でもまだ小さすぎてなんのことだか分からないかもしれない。今でもはっきり覚えているのは、ここで最初にたくさんの鱒を見たこと。この狭くて浅い小川に背びれを水面から出しながら鱒がひしめき合うように泳いでいた。

As I could have mentioned in another entry, Steyr is the city where Schubert composed his trout quintett and his apartment is in the city square called Schubert house. It was always joy for me to see trouts here, they are safe and have no fear of being caught; it seems to me that there is a strict fishing license along this river.

他のエントリーで多分触れたように、シュタイヤーはシューベルトが鱒の5重奏を作曲したところ。彼のアパートは今でもシューベルトハウスと呼ばれ、街の広場に残っている。ここで鱒が泳いでいるのを見るのは楽しみだった。捕まる心配がないから安心して泳いでいる。どうもこの川の流域では釣りの許可がなかなか厳しいようである。