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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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