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VOYAGE HIGHLIGHT
NAPLES, ITALY
IN BOURDAIN’S FOOTSTEPS
ritty Naples is a city we usually for Neapolitan pizza, captured so vividly in
avoid. Whenever our cruises a 2011 No Reservations episode, inspired
docked there, we’d escape to our pilgrimage into the heart of Naples -
G Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast, and the heart of his culinary passion.
Capri—anywhere but this frenetic metropo- When Bourdain roared into Naples on a
lis. But this time, we were drawn in by the red Vespa; he encountered a city that had
magnetic pull of chef Anthony Bourdain. seen empires rise and fall, a city that
A born storyteller, Bourdain was a cul- thrived despite its reputation for chaos and
tural explorer who celebrated the messy, ties to the Camorra. He saw the garbage
the imperfect, the authentic. His reverence piled high, the graffiti scrawled across an-
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