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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Inside Japan – Setting Up Your Japanese Life as a Student or Employee

Hello everybody! How are you? I am still in quarantine with Jack in our cute Japanese apartment. It is going well, with its normal ups and downs. I put away the luggage, set my “home workstation”, then remotely managed to talk to my company, the city office, and opened a bank account by mail. So, […]

Japan Contest: Winners and Prizes | Concorso Giappone: vincitori e premi

Dear all, I hope you are doing fine. I am here to talk about the Japan Contest! It started on July 15 and finished on August 30, with a total of 10 partners and 28 participants. There is a good piece of news: Everybody is a winner! You can read more about the contest’s history […]

Elly Lakes Products and Services!

Hi everyone, hope you are fine. Here everything is slowly proceeding, still no pieces of news for me from Japan. So, I took this time to work on Elly Lakes, and I am proud to announce the new page about “Products and Services”! In this section of the website I showcase what I can offer […]

Living Tokyo – Summer Festivals and Birthday Parties

Like in Secreted Revealed: I’m Gonna Live In Japan, I am again on the plane, this time heading towards home (but, where is home now?). I will miss Japan during this short amount of time, and I must admit I felt relieved when I filled the re-entry document at the airport. Being able to enjoy […]

Inside Japan – Behind a Success

200 people entered through the little door of the A.P.A.rte Art Gallery between December 2 and 3, 2017. A real success, since it was my first photographic exhibition! Inside Japan is a trip among four Japanese regions and more than 15 different locations. Visitors travel through a flow of interconnected panels that have also their […]

Business Cards, Logos, and Other Stories

You know what it feels like unpacking a package. Either it was a present when you were a kid, or a product you – as a grown up – ordered somewhere on the web. It is the same feeling. Well, I have just received my brand new business cards, and opening their box made me […]