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There are only two things that Tandiss loves more than Tandiss: “Products”, and traveling with me. So it was such a great coincidence that we were asked to test stuff that was meant to be really useful when traveling. Unfortunately, we weren’t on vacation. And we’re not going on vacation anytime soon, either (well — I am not going on vacation. Tandiss is currently traveling in Tel Aviv with the i-ref team). I know — bummer. On the bright side, we really like hanging out in Berlin, too, so we decided to test the travel kit “on the go” and in all kinds of typical Berlin situations (note: none of them were actually typical). You can win this travel pack if you’re interested, too! All you need to do is tell us where Tandiss should travel next in the comments and what she has to bring with her next time!
Travel Essential: A Book
Time slows down when you’re traveling, and sometimes you end up waiting or sitting somewhere for hours — in a cute café, at the beach, or more realistically, when there’s only crappy Wi-Fi and you ran out of data for the month (the WORST). Tandiss is pretend-reading “Wuchernde Paradiese” by Megan Mayhew Bergman at the newly opened Café Bitte, a great spot to chill in the sun on Glogauer Straße. Definitely order the cherry juice. And before you compliment her on the Nike Huaraches: THEY ARE MINE.
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Travel Essential: Toothbrush & Toothpaste (not real toothpaste though
We’ve all been there: after-hour, festival, or an unworthy walk of shame. What you always need is an extra toothbrush. It doesn’t matter if people think you’re assuming or neurotic. But most of the time, we find ourselves missing the tooth paste. Why does nobody EVER think of tooth paste?! Here’s the deal, though: what if you had stuff that looked like little mints, and didn’t need any water to become toothpaste. Tandiss was close to using some stale Piccolöchen before we discovered that the DENTTABS were exactly what we needed. Just pop one in and let it bubble. Unless you’re as stupid as I am and start chewing and swallowing that stuff, which is basically like squeezing Crest down your throat. In my defense, I was hungry (as always).
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Travel Essential: Socks
Who doesn’t need fresh socks when traveling? Especially when you haven’t been to the mani-pedi and your toes look like they’re grade 2 tofu-sausages. Yeah, thanks, but no. The Minga-Berlin socks are comfortable and delightfully, not unicolor. Tandiss, my personal fashion icon, thinks that unicolor is so 2014, which is obvious looking at her outfit, but it’s sad because she’s wrong.
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Travel Essential: Sunglasses
Sunglasses! YES! They are the promise of sun, beach and summer life! Cute & sweaty boys! Yes, sunglasses mean a lot to me. It doesn’t come as a surprise, then, that I lose and break my sunglasses every season. Coincidently, sun, beach and summer life as well as cute and sweaty boys never make an appearance in my life. The Papp-Up sunglasses are made of paper, basically indestructible and it’s not really a waste if you lose them. Tandiss was wearing them without taking off the foil of the glasses, so that demented grin on her face is only her pure confusion (“Am I blind? What are those shit things?”). Turns out they’re actually quite good if you know how to use them.
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Travel Essential: Hand Lotion
Call it a girl-thing, but Tandiss has a weak spot for all sorts of lotions. You should see our home (we live together and I’ve seen her naked more than I ever wanted to). Every day, new creams, new fragrances, perfumes, shampoos, we are the equivalent of cat ladies but for dead things made out of crude oil. How do you like Pai, Tandiss? “It’s amazing. Can I have it?” No, you can’t. It’s mine.
In this picture, we’re sitting at The Bowl. Tandiss is wearing her “I’m dead inside” look that she gets when she expects terrible bowel movements.
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Travel Essential: Eye Mask
“What if you’re the first in line at Berghain before it opens?” “Then you’re the first one not to get in!”
Tandiss always wants to go to Berghain, yet she never actually does because she’s lazy af. But with her new favorite eye mask (ok, so this eyemask is REALLY ACTUALLY COOL and we’re fighting every night about who gets to wear it because we still didn’t get around installing blinds), I quote, “I can actually fall asleep in front of the Berghain door without smudging my EYE MAKE UP!” Tandiss is wearing Ohropax in these pictures, and also several STDs she picked up from the floor.
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Travel Essential: Food
Finally we get to the funnest part of the day: the food. As Middle Eastern people, we are crazy about dried fruits and nuts and stuff like that. Of course, people who are prone to overeating (= us) really shouldn’t indulge in this kind of gluttony, as most of the time, eating a date or “some” cashews ends up having as much calories as a bathtub of Nutella. Dörrwerk saved us, though. We were actually stuck at Neu West Berlin on Köpenicker when the heaviest rain ever set in, and if you’ve ever been in Neu West Berlin, there’s only a creepy Industrial furniture shop located there and nothing else. We held on dearly to the last available piece of civilization: fruit paper. Actually, this could be a good addition to our Berlin snacks page, as it’s Made in Berlin. Also, they save really ugly fruit from being thrown away and proceed to make these edible, delicious papers out of them. Awww. Kind of like I saved Tandiss from mediocrity.
We never found out how many calories we stuffed into us that day, and we never asked.
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Travel Essential: Notebook
A classic essential, really: a notebook. But not one of those hardcover things that you can never fit into your pocket. Instead: a nice one. One that is orange so you don’t lose or forget it, but one that isn’t fancy enough to be stolen or makes you look like you’re the type of person that spends a lot of money on such a thing. Nothing pretentious. I made Tandiss sit in front of the Academic Halls of the Grimm Bibliothek in Mitte, and she did not blend in at all. Nice try!
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Win 1x1 travel kit:
If you liked the essentials that Tandiss tested in our little “Tandiss Travels” story, here’s good news: you can win the whole pack! All you need to do is:
- tell us where Tandiss should travel next and
– what she should bring along on her trip
in the comments.
The winner will be notified by the end of the week per email.
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