Inspiring Travel Writing from Christopher Deliso
Christopher Deliso is a professional travel writer and journalist covering the Balkans, Greece, Turkey and the Caucasus. Chris’ experience of the region started when he embarked on an MPhil course in Byzantine Studies at Oxford University, back in 1997. He has been living and travelling in the region ever since.
Aside from publishing many travel articles in US newspapers and magazines, and reviewing hotels for Travel Intelligence, Chris has co-authored Lonely Planet guides to Greece, the Greek Islands, Bulgaria, Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Europe on a Shoestring. In 2007, London’s Haus Publishing released Chris’ first travelogue, Hidden Macedonia. Along with the personal website chrisdeliso.com Chris runs an independent Balkan news and analysis website, balkanalysis.com.
Aside from publishing many travel articles in US newspapers and magazines, and reviewing hotels for Travel Intelligence, Chris has co-authored Lonely Planet guides to Greece, the Greek Islands, Bulgaria, Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Europe on a Shoestring. In 2007, London’s Haus Publishing released Chris’ first travelogue, Hidden Macedonia. Along with the personal website chrisdeliso.com Chris runs an independent Balkan news and analysis website, balkanalysis.com.
Articles by Christopher Deliso
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Exotic, Cultured Tbilisi
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Christopher Deliso
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Georgia
There’s something intriguing about a city whose main street has been swallowed up by culture. Take Tbilisi, Georgia. Its grand Rustavelis Gamziri Boulevard - named after the national poet - houses the opera house, National Museum, Gallery of...
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Into the heart of Byzantium: A journey to Mt. Athos
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Christopher Deliso
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Greece
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Mainland Greece
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Mount Athos
In the expansive darkness, under a vast, star-clustered sky, they gather. These hooded shadows, flitting noiselessly through a maze of columns and arching passageways, are enacting a ritual greater than themselves. They melt into the church, from...
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Searching for the Soul of Crete: Into the Villages
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Christopher Deliso
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Greece
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Crete Island
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Crete Town
It was simple, Maria the village schoolteacher explained: people from the east of Crete are soft, overeducated idlers, according to the people from the west of Crete, who themselves are regarded by the former as violent goat-thieves, and a bit...
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Top Beaches of Western Crete
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Christopher Deliso
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Greece
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Crete Island
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Crete Town
It is embraced by the Mediterranean, the Libyan and its own eponymous sea: and Crete, Greece’s biggest and most varied island, reciprocates the affection with rocky outcroppings, hidden coves and sandy beaches that run all along its winding...
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Ireland: The Blaskets
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Christopher Deliso
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Ireland
Stretching beyond and forever is the cold Atlantic. The western sky also stretches wide, and in evening the sunset dissipates, seems to float, on vast thick clouds, inflated and tinged with purples and reds, like those regal jellyfish bobbing on the...
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Drinking in Dublin
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Christopher Deliso
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Ireland
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East Coast Ireland
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Dublin
A raucous roar went up as time expired, and a bloodied County Meath emerged the winner. The dejected losers, archrivals Dublin, plodded off the field in silence. The 30,000 fans who had almost torn down old Croke Park with their bare fists spilled...
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Illustrious Olympia, Then and Now
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Christopher Deliso
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Greece
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Peloponnese
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Olympia
In 2004, Greece hosted the Olympics for the first time since the modern Games started in 1896. Before that, it had been only 1,503 years since the previous ones, in 393 A.D. The year after, a pious Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I banned the Games,...
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Tbilisi to the Top of the World and Back
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Christopher Deliso
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Georgia
Although it deserves much longer, the journey from Tbilisi up along the Georgian Military Highway to the top of the world and back can be made in a single day, provided that the weather is warm and the skies are clear. This road, which connects...
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An Incomparable Inertia: Skopje to Saloniki by Rail
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Christopher Deliso
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Macedonia
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Skopje Region
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Skopje
Unless you take the other one, in the dead of night, the train arrives in late afternoon and by that time you just want to sit down and sleep against the window. But usually the press of people, all pushing and clamoring to board (grandmothers with...
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Milia Traditional Settlement
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Christopher Deliso
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Greece
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Crete Island
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Crete Town
What began as an experiment over a decade ago is still marked by a refreshing sense of freedom and hearty doses of Greek country hospitality. One of the most unique accommodations in Crete, Milia, is located far from the tourist throngs, in the...