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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Inside Japan – Coming Back to Tokyo: Important Documents and Quarantine Hotel Experience

Hello my dear readers, and welcome again to 2022! Hopefully it will start better than my 2021, as I narrated in my last, very personal, post. We spent our New Year’s Eve “on the road” (I will tell you this story later, stay tuned!) and then we took an airplane to Japan on January 3. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]