Originally Posted by bellysophie

Hi all!
My husband and I are going to be traveling to Cyprus, Greece and possibly Macedonia and/or Albania for 4 weeks from Sep 19th till Oct 14th. We are going to start with Cyprus (landing in Larnaca) for 2 days, visiting my family, then Athens (3-4 days), then driving around Greece with probable hops to Macedonia and/or Albania towards the end of the trip. Then back home from Thessaloniki.

I was wondering if local dancers could give me some recommendations regarding:
- belly dance events, of course
Unfortunately for Greece we are still having vacations, so no shows yet, or classes, what you can find is privite classes

- Tsifteteli instructors
The best thing to do is to go out at bouzoukia places and watch the people dancing, you can also take privite lessons from any greek teacher about the base and the history of the dance, you can read before this Chryssanthi's Sahar article in Oriental Dancer about Greek Chifteteli, its a treasure!

- good Rebetiko music places (very important, I have a Rebetiko course this year so I must prepare myself!)
Awwww still most places are close around usual open middle of October.
- Macedonian and Albanian Roma music and dance events/venues/instructors
Dont know nothing about this

- awesome places to eat
Depends how much you want to spend, we have great places in Athens!!

- tourist traps to avoid
Be careful with the taxis, relax and enjoy it !!!

- any other suggestions are welcome too, including getting together for coffee
I'm in for the coffee thing !!! come from the school or we can go out !!
send me pm to give you mobile phone etc.


Thanks in advance.
Sophie