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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Inside Japan – 2021: The Year I Settled in Tokyo

Hello my beautiful people, I hope you are all fine and I wish you the best for your 2022! For me, it is that time of the year where I would like to share with you my personal experience. Feel free to continue reading at your own risk, I warned you! 2021 in a nutshellAs […]

Inside Japan – Exit and Return to Japan as a Resident During COVID-19

Hi everybody! How are you? My first week of quarantine is almost over, I got used to the jet lag, I am fine. Not so much changed from before, since with my current job I have always been working from home. The weekends will be tough though, but I will take the time to write […]