I live alone on my own private island – but now I’m being kicked off

A MAN known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe is set to leave an island 32 years after he washed up there.

Mauro Morandi, 81, settled on the island of Budelli in 1989 after giving up his job as a PE teacher.

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But now Mauro, after all these years, looks set to finally move on following pressure from the authorities.

“I will leave hoping that in the future Budelli will be protected as I have protected it for 32 years,” he wrote on Facebook on Sunday.

After he washed up on the island off northern Sardinia Mr Morandi learned that the caretaker was retiring from his post, so he sold his catamaran and took on the role.

He soon became known as Italy’s answer to Robinson Crusoe. But over the last decade he faced pressure from park authorities to move on.

In 2020 the president of La Maddalena’s National Park, Fabrizio Fonnesu, told CNN that Mr Morandi had carried out illegal alterations to his hut.

In the past the Italian has described himself as a “bit of a rebel.”

Despite a petition calling on the authorities to allow him to stay, it now appears that Mr Morandi is set to move on.

Speaking to The Guardian he said that he planned to relocate to the nearby island of La Maddalena. He added: “My life won’t change too much, I’ll still see the sea.”

Budelli forms part of Maddalena Archipelago National Park and is associated with its pink coloured beach.

Dario Escobar, 88, is a Colombian football fan who now lives in isolation in Lebanon following a call from God.

He committed to a life which sees him pray for 14 hours a day in 1990 and has not watched a football match in 33 years.

His daily routine also sees him work the land for three hours, study for two hours and sleep for five hours between 7pm and 12am.

Escobar is originally from Medellin, Colombia, but now lives in northern Lebanon.

A historic cave hidden away in woodland could be yours for just £60,000.

Known as the Hermitage, the carved stone home is said to have been sculpted from rock by a baker from Derby called Cornelius, who lived there by himself in the 1100s.

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