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 – The Silence That Kills, The Danger From Within

Hi my dear readers, how are you? I am doing ok, this summer I will spend some time in Switzerland working remotely and helping my mum, leaving Jack and Mr. Fuzzy in Tokyo, I hope everything will be fine. But let’s dive in today’s topic. As you may already know, last Friday here in Japan […]

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 […]