Tastdem Tour (travel blog)
The “TASTDEM”! What is that? A construction of a tandem and a piano that we created with your help. Why? To go on an adventure with you and the boards and keys that mean the world to us. For us, it’s the only way to meet listeners of our music and inspire them.
Our goal was to travel 1,300 km in 21 days with 21 nature concerts along the Elbe and to surprise you at the end with an unprecedented experience.
In the pictures you can see our TASTDEM prototype, in the cardboard and metal versions, as well as our finished TASTDEM after we have been tinkering with it for six months.
Follow our tour from the first day to the finish over 1300km! 🚴♂️🚴♂️🎹
How it all began…
30. Juli 2021 It’s winter and the Corona lockdown, and the order situation looks terrible, to put it mildly. Federal financial aid is slowly trickling in after a year, even for artists, but it only just covers the costs and is not really able to offer any perspective or way out. Then Andreas had a…
Our first crowdfunding!
03. August 2021 If you have sleepless nights, you can read here again what we wrote to promote our project and encourage people to support us. Have fun! A construction made of our beloved piano on a special cargo trailer and a tandem that we want to use to go on an adventure trip. Unfortunately,…
SHIT!!! Tastdem tour begins with first shock
That’s really not cool right now! Unfortunately, the two people who built the trailer for us didn’t manage to finish one of the most important things: the bike rack for spontaneous passengers on the Tastdem. We were told that yesterday when we picked it up. Stupid, really stupid. I rarely get annoyed, but this is…
We are exhausted!
05. August 2021 We didn’t drive to Potsdam as we had originally planned to get the alternative trailer, and we didn’t drive halfway between Potsdam and Dresden either, because we were told that the alternative trailer was not available. BAM. We were really starting to despair. The help from master carpenter Seidel, who had initially…
Not as expected, but we were at the source today!
06. August 2021 08/05/21 at 1:30 a.m.: We wanted an adventure, so we got one. But that doesn’t mean that it will go according to our rules and expectations. Life plays by its own rules. After a three-hour drive and a shopping trip with our last money, we found ourselves full of anticipation in front…
The first fifty kilometers are behind us with all our belongings!
07. August 2021 08/06/21 at 00:19: We are finally lying in our tents, outside the last drops of rain are still dripping from the leaves of the trees and my bottom is really sore. Finally a little time to tell you about today’s events. After leaving our sleeping place a little late, we drove towards…
Let’s see what we rock today
07. August 2021 It’s 12 o’clock, the sun is shining, the wind is blowing from the front, the tents are packed up and a lot of work has already been done, which still needs to be done at the same time. This blog alone took two hours this morning, sorting through and editing photos and…
We are still alive, don’t worry, and things always go on somehow
10. August 2021 On the morning of August 10th, 2021 at 7:35 a.m.: I got up extra early so as not to keep you in the dark any longer about the events since the chain broke. I’m sitting tired but comfortably on the couch of a long-time friend from Dresden, who welcomed us enthusiastically last…
Lutherstadt Wittenberg is waiting for us today
12. August 2021 Yes, I know. Yesterday is still undocumented, so I’ll try to at least outline today in small bites. We had a relaxing night in the boathouse in Torgau today and got up at 7:30 a.m. to go to the “Radhaus” on time to have our whole vehicle checked. So here I am…
Good morning everyone and everything that hurts
13. August 2021 8:00 a.m.: Ouch!!! My whole body is crying out for a yoga class and a day of rest. I’m still sitting on the edge of the bed and struggling to open my swollen eyes because, despite my straw hat, our faces have been exposed to a lot of sun in the last…
From Dessau to Schönebeck and Sascha as companion
14. August 2021 While our breakfast in Lutherstadt Wittenberg with Sandra was princely, this morning we were treated like royalty to Kirstin and Frank’s! Now, well-fortified, we’re heading back to our vehicle, which was allowed to sleep safely in the garage. Our music is playing here now and we hope to see the two of…
Kiss my a… mood
16. August 2021 It is 9:30 a.m. and we are mentally a little exhausted. We no longer feel as physically fit as we did three days ago. The lack of sleep, the sun and the physical exertion are slowly but surely wearing us out. Andreas has a sore throat and a headache, our faces are…
Waiting for Anna and thank you tour through Wittenberge
17. August 2021 Wow, woke up at 11:30 after 5.5 hours of sleep. Wow, the feeling of having slept well, even if it was only five and a half hours, is great! What a difference a nice duvet makes. Incredible, the white shirts that we had left in Win’s care last night, still dirty, were…
“From Dömitz to Lüneburg” or “Nettle smoothie instead of beer and schnapps”
18. August 2021 A minute after they left, the FAZ journalist arrived and we could have pretended that we had only been travelling this way and that was all. Nevertheless, we told him the story of the last three days – honesty is the best policy – and so we had a quick, rainy but…
Lüneburg is a dream. Eighty kilometers by car is not.
19. August 2021 NDR shoot in the morning After spending the night in yoga-like positions, as the ground was unfortunately anything but flat, we had to get up again before we could sleep in. This time someone from NDR had announced that he would be coming and wanted to film the dismantling of the tents.…