Emma Gibbs Author

Emma Gibbs (emmagibbseditorial.com) is a freelance travel writer and editor, specialising in northern Scotland, and with a particular interest in Slow and sustainable travel. She is the author of North Coast 500: Britain's Ultimate Road Trip (a best-selling, illustrated guide that identifies the 100 best places to visit along this touring route in northern Scotland) and i-SPY Scotland. She has written for The Guardian, The I, The Independent and Scotland Magazine, among others, for articles about northern Scotland that have seen her snorkelling in the North Sea, stargazing from a campervan, and (perhaps hardest of all) sampling local whisky and beer. Her first experience of the region was on the far north coast where - despite being repeatedly rained off the beaches and attempting a picnic during a sandstorm - the craggy coastline, quiet roads and brooding mountains led to her realising there was nowhere she'd rather be than the Scottish Highlands.