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 […]

Japan Virtual Tours – Four Amazing Hiking Trails in Kamakura With the Swiss Club Tokyo

Hello my amazing followers! 2022, as its predecessors, did not start in the best way, what a crazy world we live in. Luckily, spring is here, and at least we can start hiking again to release some stress. I share with you the four excursions we do with the Swiss Club Tokyo each year. Our […]

Japan Virtual Tours – Kansai Mon Amour! A Different Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto

Hello everyone! How are you? In my last article I wrote about starting to work and my first trip near beautiful Mount Fuji. Many things happened after that: I went live on the Swiss radio, spent one great month working in my company, and found a new apartment where Jack and I will move next […]

Japan Virtual Tours – Beautiful Gems around Mount Fuji

Hi everyone! How are you? I almost finished my second working week in Tokyo after a three days holiday (Monday was Labor Thanksgiving Day). The short trip will be the topic of this article. You can read all day-by-day updates I dedicated to my first week from the posts on my social media. Enjoy before […]

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 […]

Jack and Elly – When Love Is Stronger Than Anything

Hello dear readers! How are you? Since I have been receiving several questions about it, also during my radio performances, today I would like to surprise you with a different kind of article: I will talk about the Jack and Elly project! This means a lot of secret stuff! Starting from when and how we […]

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 […]

Between Japan and Europe: What Coronavirus Does to Travelers

Hey everyone, hope you are doing fine. Just ten days have passed after my last article (here) and so many things happened in the meantime. Let’s see how life changed due to Coronavirus and what we should do in the next weeks for ourselves and others. My plansLet’s start with my plans. Who personally knows […]

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 […]