How to Become a Solopreneur in Japan and France: My Experience with Elly Lakes

Dear all, we are now entering the second half of the year. How is it going for you so far? For me, this year started off great by no longer getting sick! Since then, I have taken on new collaborations and helped both old and new clients travel and find apartments in Japan and Nice. […]

Year 2024: Between Japan and Europe (2025 Spoiler Ahead!)

Hi everyone, I hope you had the best Christmas and New Year celebrations! We spent them with our families, who came visit us in the beautiful French Riviera. It was the first time in a while that somebody came visit us and not the opposite, so we appreciated it a lot. We also had a […]

From Japan to France: Renting an Apartment in Nice Compared to Tokyo

My dear followers, I hope you are all doing great. Christmas Day is near, there is a festive atmosphere everywhere, and with Elly Lakes you also have the chance to gift an amazing trip organization to somebody you love (you are still on time!). This is the month were many people gather with their families […]

Christmas Campaign: Gift(Yourself) a Trip by Elly Lakes

Edit: Thanks to the positive response to this campaign, you can now receive handmade gift cards for any occasion: not only for Christmas and New Year, but also for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s and Father’s Day, birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, graduations… Hi everyone! How are you doing? I hope everything is going well with you. Today, November […]

From Japan to France: My Move from Tokyo to Nice

Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing fine. It has been a while, and as usual so much has happened in the meantime. The highlight is that I moved to the fourth country of my life: After Italy, Switzerland, and Japan, it is time for France! I chose the city of Nice, in the […]

Year 2023: Discovering the Concept of Digital Nomadism

Hi my dear followers! Elly Lakes is back, after the longest hiatus of the website since its creation in 2017. I owe you an apology. I feel blessed every single day for the life I have, with its ups and downs, but my mum’s accident in 2022 (she had a brain haemorrhage, from which very […]

Year 2022: How Remote Work Changed My Life

Hello everyone, we reached the end of January 2023, but allow me to post my “end of the year” article now. During last year, you may have noticed prolonged periods of silence from me. The reason is simple: 2022 brought horrible events in my personal life, difficult to cope with, and I got a kind […]

The Seven Steps to Happiness by Elly Lakes

Hello everyone, it has been a while since my last article! I came back to Japan from Europe, then I took a break from social media to focus on working remotely from different locations in Japan, and Hawaii! You can already see some pictures on my channels. But let’s dive into today’s topic: Happiness, since […]

Between Japan and Europe – What Four Years Abroad and Almost Losing my Mum Taught Me

Hello my beautiful people! How are you doing? I hope everything is fine. As you may have seen from my social media channels, I had to suddenly fly back to Europe because of my mum. She got kind of a stroke and had to undergo brain surgery. Given the fact that she is young, and […]

Elly Lakes Sings! My Relationship With Music and Singing

Dear all, as you already know, on September 4 I released “my” very first song! I lent my voice to DJ BK (Producer) and Aiden Official (Coproducer) to create “Dream Night”: A track about a love story that unfortunately never happened, but which in my opinion is so energetic to give the listener the power […]