‘I have given up the fight’: ‘Italy’s Robinson Crusoe’ to leave island Mauro Morandi has lived alone on Budelli since 1989 but will relocate after several eviction threats

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[mylife]

A man known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe who has lived alone on a Mediterranean island for more than 30 years after running into difficulties in the sea has said he is finally surrendering to pressure from authorities to leave and will be moving to a small apartment.

Mauro Morandi, 81, stumbled across Budelli, an island off Sardinia known for its pink-sanded beach, in 1989 after his catamaran broke down on the way to the south Pacific. In a fortuitous twist of fate, Morandi discovered that the island’s caretaker was about to retire, and so he abandoned the sailing trip, sold his boat and took over the role.

‘Italy’s Robinson Crusoe’ despairs as eviction from island paradise looms Read more Since then, Morandi, whose home is a former second world war shelter overlooking a bay, has got to know every rock, tree and animal species of the rugged islet.

Morandi said he had decided to leave at the end of the month after several threats of eviction from the La Maddalena national park authorities, which have been managing Budelli since 2016 and want to reclaim his home and turn the island into what has been described as a hub for environmental education.

[mylife]

I have been to La Maddalena, where a submarine dumped me and 13 other squids. no port its a sub anchorage. We took a choppy ass ferry ride to Pelau on the mainland. There we me a squid from dirsup in Rota Spain and he drove 2 of us on what seemed like hundreds of miles of dirt roads in a mini cooper. we eventually reached pavement and Rome... where some Guido stuck a submachine gun in my ear..

strange times in casablanca...

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7fsdEQTYUk&t=4s

[mylife]

I still think the war in libya was NATO weenies putting dibs on beachfront property..

[dfwgator]

I still think the war in libya was NATO weenies putting dibs on beachfront property..

Knowing also it would trigger a wave of refugees fleeing to Europe to bring on The Great Replacement.

[mylife]

[mylife]

At the forefront of this mess was guys like John Kerry and Hitlary

[mylife]

sorry this article triggered me..

[albie]

It’s beautiful but I’d go mad being alone for 30 years.

[wbarmy]

Guido stuck a submachine gun in my ear..

That brought back a memory of a back road in Khwost and a boy from the local militia stuck an AK in my face. Not one of the happiest moments in my life. Looking down a barrel is never fun.

[Red Badger]

National park authorities have argued that Morandi made changes to the building without the required permits.

Those damn HOA's!......................

[dfwgator]

Mussolini Lives!

[mylife]

stuck it right in my ear, I was like scuse?

[Az Joe]

What boat?

[Red Badger]

How many governments has Italy had since he was first there?...................

[texas booster]

If there was ever a case for being grandfathered in, this must be it.

From 1989 until 2016 ... and now they want building codes?

He is 81 y.o. Let nature take its course.

[Larry Lucido]

And don't try to pay their tips in pennies! They get touchy!

[Remole]

“So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas . . .”

[mylife]

was it a steamship?

[mylife]

billfish 676

[mowowie]

Evicted by enviroMENTAL Moonbats..