St. Enogat and St. Lunaire
On our last afternoon at our Dinard rental house Rick and I took a walk on the St. Enogat beach for old times sake. Our friends had other plans. It was in St. Enogat that we lived for seven months in 2019-20. It remains one of the most happy times, despite the pandemic, of our years together.
St. Enogat is the historic cradle of what is now the upscale vacation town of Dinard, The city grew up and out from there, which in the nineteenth century was a thriving fishing hamlet. St. Enogat was the name of the city until 1921, when it changed its name to Dinard. St. Enogat is now just a district of the town, located west of Dinard center. Dinard has 407 listed villas and St. Enogat has its share, All traces of the fishing village it once was have vanished and been replaced by beautiful and extravagant homes on the cliffs overlooking the sea.
Dinard and Cancale
A few days after the conclusion of our delightful workshop with Gail Rieke, we left for the Brittany coast to meet up with some of our best friends from California, Cass and Billy. They had rented an apartment in one of the most beautiful spots on the coast of Dinard and invited us to join them. We had stayed in this same apartment with them two years ago and all of us were anxious to relive that most extraordinary experience. We had been planning and anticipating it since almost immediately after the last time we were there in 2022. The Château des Deux Rives is a mansion built in 1878 by the wonderfully named Count Joseph Dahdah on a point of land jutting out into the Bay of St. Malo and offering a view of more than 180º of coastline.