Escape to Europe – Bellissima Italia from the Lake to the Sea

Hi my beautiful readers! I hope you are all doing fine. Did you get a bit of luck and happiness from my latest article? Today I would like to share with you the adventure we had in Italy last summer, at the end of my stay. Jack managed to come visit me and we decided […]

Escape to Europe – My Japan in Lugano, Monza, Milan, and London

Hi everyone, how are you? As you may know from my latest article, I have been to Europe for one month, due to my mum’s brain accident, from which she luckily survived. Now she is doing better, improving day by day at the rehabilitation clinic, a thing that allowed me to return to Japan. But […]

Amazing Stories – From Tokyo to Krakow in a Van

As promised, here comes the adventure we had at the end of 2021! The “Amazing Stories” series started with Colin; do you remember? He travelled 14 days on a boat to reach Japan from Vladivostok. Our adventure has something similarly epic. Of course, the title is a bit “romanticised” since doing Tokyo-Krakow in a van […]

Amazing Stories – From Vladivostok to Fukuoka on a Boat

Hi my dear readers! How is life going? There are a few updates from my side: In one of my latest posts I talked about the possibility to go back to Japan, and now it is confirmed! I am in the middle of visa’s procedures, and I may be able to be back by November! […]

Escape to Europe – Road Trip Among Italy, France, and Switzerland

Hello guys! I am back to work on Elly Lakes! On August 11, I said goodbye to Jack who went back to Tokyo after spending a couple of weeks in Europe, where we had our amazing Road Trip among Italy, France, and Switzerland. You can read later about our story to understand why this short […]

Escape to Switzerland – Ticino Secret Paths (Part Two)

Hello everybody! How are you? I am fine and Japan seems to be doing good as well, since amusement parks are slowly reopening. Let’s hope it will welcome travellers from abroad soon! Here in Europe, summer has finally come, it is warm, the sun is shining bright, so it is time to talk about the […]

Escape to Switzerland – Ticino Secret Paths

Hi everyone! How are you doing? I am fine, recently many things have happened in Japan and in my life: Japan opened internally, and maybe at the end of June it will also open to foreigner visitors. I talked about this topic, together with my last article, on TV! You can watch the entire interview […]

Escape to Spain – My Japan in Barcelona

Hello! How are you? I just came back from a special long weekend in Barcelona. Why I went there? And why am I referring to Japan in the title of the article? Because I decided to visit my friend Chiara, whom I met in Tokyo in 2018. We went to the same language school, and […]

Escape to Taiwan – My Taipei

Hi my dear readers! I finally managed to write this article, which many of you were waiting for! As the title says, it will be about my short (but intense) trip to Taiwan. Like my first trip to Seoul (here), I thought I was going to be alone, but my friend Yuki decided to come […]

Escape to China – From North to South

Hi everybody! How is life going? I just came back from a trip, taking advantage of our 10 days of Golden Week because Japan changed emperor last week! Akihito left his place to Naruhito on April 30. You can find many pieces of news online about this event. So, where did I go? The title […]