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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Inside Japan – From an Outlander to a Mini, Our Odyssey With Buying Cars in Tokyo

Hello everyone, how are you? I am already back! This article follows the one about renting cars in Japan, because we will keep talking about cars. But this time, the focus is on buying them, and especially in Tokyo, the place where we gained our unbelievable experience. Do you remember the recent post on my […]

Inside Japan – Our (Dis)adventures With Renting Cars, Not Only in Tokyo

Hi everyone, how are you doing? We are fine, my mum is still doing rehabilitation, and I see her through videocalls almost every day. Unfortunately, we will need to change our summer plans! In my last article, I promised you that we could go visit the Japanese exhibitions together, and I hope we will still […]

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 […]