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 […]

Jack and Elly – Love Beyond Borders

Hello my amazing followers! February is the month of love with Valentine’s Day, so I decided to dedicate this article to Jack and Elly. In Year 2023: Discovering the Concept of Digital Nomadism I promised you I was going to tell you more about Jack and Mr. Fuzzy, and here I am. Why am I […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Inside Japan – Certificates of Eligibility, Visas, and Current Situation

Hi everybody, hope everything is fine. My last article talked about my holidays, which now are just a memory. I miss Jack so much! I cannot wait to go back to Japan and restart my life. Recently I received many questions about how difficult it is to get a visa for Japan, while me and […]

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 […]

Inside Japan – The Secret Pros of Wearing Face Masks

Hello everyone! How are you? I am fine, Japan started lifting restrictions in some prefectures, and seems that it will open up completely next Monday. Anyway, these days one thing that impressed me is the increasing amount of people in the West starting to complain about the use of face masks. They seem to be […]