Christopher Deliso
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Christopher Deliso
Chris Deliso (www.chrisdeliso.com) is an American travel writer and journalist concentrating on southeast Europe, where he has been living and traveling since 2002. He's also the director of an independent website (www.balkanalysis.com) which covers current events, politics and more concerning the Balkan region. Chris has contributed to around 20 Lonely Planet travel guides to countries like Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania.
He has covered political life in Macedonia for London's Economist Intelligence Unit since 2004, and has also published widely on travel in newspapers, magazines and websites in the US, UK and many other countries. Chris earned an MPhil with honours in Byzantine Studies from Oxford University (1999) — an experience that fuelled his curiosity in the lands of the former Byzantine Empire.
— Articles by Christopher Deliso —
hidden europe 53: Feature
Magazine article
A Day by the Lake: Simple Pleasures in Egirdir
by Christopher DelisoThe blue skies of Anatolia merge with the still waters of Lake Egirdir, on the shores of which Said Nursi wrote his landmark commentary on the Koran. Chris Deliso discovers good food and good music in a community in Turkey.
The Macedonian town of Kratovo is by-passed by most travellers exploring the southern Balkans. But guest contributor Chris Deliso took time to discover the town which was once an important mining centre. Join us as we walk over the bridges of Kratovo and find a community which is trying to reinvent itself.
On the face of it the neighbouring villages of Labunishta and Vevchani seem quite similar. But guest contributor Christopher Deliso probes beneath the surface to reveal the ethnic and cultural differences that have always defined Macedonia.
At the point in the southwest Balkans where Macedonia, Albania and Greece converge lies Lake Prespa. It is an extraordinary place - brackish waters, fill of bulbous weeds that pull at your feet. In the middle of the lake is Golem Grad, an island with stark white cliffs - and thousands of snakes.