Hi, I'm Lale Arakogli, with another episode of Women Who Travel.

We often chat on this show to intrepid explorers,

and at other times to women who start new lives far from home.

Today's story combines exploration with a bold move from London to a tiny island in

Scottish Hebrides. Tamzan Caledas has lived in a remote cottage for over 19 years. She's

experienced tragedy, injury and isolation, but also the regenerative power of nature, all of which is charted in her

recent book, I Am an Island.

I'm an island is, it's just using the island, obviously, as the place where I'm telling the story

from, but it's really a metaphor for all of us in life.

It's the human experiences that we each meet and which test.

And what do you turn to when that tide draws back?

And you're really left alone and really facing your own existence and what it's all about and why am I here

and what am I being called to do knowing that that tide will return that everything in life is

circular but asking it in that moment of profound challenge who and what am I going to fall back on

when everything that I would normally rely on or depend on?

Even the most basic structures have all been pulled away.

May you find the sun and a galaxy alone.

May your dreams be realized and your fears proved wrong.

May you rest your weary head when the day's work's done.

And I couldn't wish more for you.

The island is off the northwest coast of Scotland.

It's 15 miles long, sparsely populated, and it only got electricity in the 1970s.

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