Rachel Middleton

Who I am

Rachel. 30.
Office Manager in Paris —
and a creator every chance
I get.

I grew up in the south of France dreaming of running hotels. I never did, but I never quite lost the obsession with beautiful places either. I moved to Paris for work, and to the rest of the world for everything else.

I have Indonesian roots. I once worked in a chocolate shop in Sydney. I went on safari in Tanzania and couldn't speak for an hour. I ate at 2am in Seoul and thought it was completely normal. And one morning in Japan, I saw Mount Fuji by accident and cried like a kid on Christmas.

I'm the kind of person who can plan a trip in under a week, genuinely loves coming home after, and is back in her routine the next morning. Travel isn't an escape for me — it's just the way I choose to be present in the world.

I love beautiful hotels. I love the details most people walk past. And I film everything worth keeping.

Based in

Paris, France

Languages

English · French

Community

6K on Instagram

Brands

50+ trusted me

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My approach

I create to remember.
Not to impress.

What draws me to a place is never the obvious — it's the light on a wooden ceiling, the welcome tea no one asked for, the way Mount Fuji changes colour every twenty minutes from a ryokan window. The small things that disappear if you don't catch them.

My style is soft, cinematic and grounded in real moments. I'm not chasing catalogue perfection — I'm chasing the instant when a place looks exactly like what it promised to be. Sometimes that's a 45-second reel. Sometimes it's a photo of an unmade bed on a slow morning in Japan.

I'm still learning, still refining. But I know how to make people want to be somewhere they've never been.

Rachel in a Japanese tea houseQuiet ryokan morningZen garden, Kyoto

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