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Welcome to Elly’s World! (Guide to ellylakes.com)

Welcome to my world. I suggest you to have a look to this short guide before scrolling or exploring around! Benvenuti nel mio mondo. Vi consiglio di dare un’occhiata a questa breve guida prima di scorrere oltre o esplorare! English & Italian Before starting, you need to know that every article in this website will […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Japan Virtual Tours – Four Amazing Hiking Trails in Kamakura With the Swiss Club Tokyo

Hello my amazing followers! 2022, as its predecessors, did not start in the best way, what a crazy world we live in. Luckily, spring is here, and at least we can start hiking again to release some stress. I share with you the four excursions we do with the Swiss Club Tokyo each year. Our […]

Inside Japan – Moving to a Detached House (戸建て) in Tokyo!

Hello everyone! How did 2022 start for you? We had to say goodbye to our beloved Spotty, our 15-year-old chihuahua that came all the way to Poland with us. Now Jack and I have Mr. Fuzzy, a Siberian cat that you can also follow on Instagram! I will prepare an article about pets in Japan, […]

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 […]