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. 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. Follow Chris on Substack at https://christopherdeliso.substack.com/.
A Day by the Lake: Simple Pleasures in Egirdir
The 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 ...
