Caribbean Postcard: Finding Napoli, Beside the Sea, in Nassau

By: - February 14th, 2013

NASSAU — This isn’t Naples, although it might taste like it. Out of the state-of-the-art Italian pizza oven pictured above comes traditional, exceptional, authentic, thin-crust Neapolitan pizza. It’s Giotto Pizzeria, the latest development of the ever-expanding Graycliff Hotel and Restaurant complex in the Bahamas. (Graycliff made the cut in our recent Cool List of the Caribbean’s Coolest Hotels, in part due to its versatility, from producing world-class cigars to a new chocolate factory). — CJ

 

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Painting Bonaire

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CTO: Caribbean Tourism Grew 5.4 Percent in 2012

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