Rowayton

A really nice seaside community in Norwalk, CT. There are several beaches and clubs and Pinckney park where every year there is Shakespeare on the Sound. In the center of town, there are restaurants, pizza parlor, a gourmet store, ice-cream shop, post office, hardware store and the like. The town is populated with preppy nouveau riche types, but also with quieter old money. The houses by and on the water usually sell in excess of $2mil, the nicest areas being Bell Island and the Pine Point Association. Activities include: beach-going, sailing, windsurfing, swimming and tennis. The atmosphere is very much like Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard (sans tourists) and it is very little known. Most people from Darien do not like to recognize this new 'hot spot' and regard it with contempt as it is in Norwalk (the 'ghetto'). Also most Rowaytonites do not like to admit that they are in fact part of Norwalk, and can't believe that some people haven't heard of their little paradise. So there it is: a bubble within the bubble of Fairfield county.