Mauro Morandi, a man who made an art of living off the grid on a deserted Mediterranean island for more than 30 years has ...

“I cannot enjoy the island’s solitude any more but my ... He was saddened when he made a brief visit to Budelli to collect some belongings. “It was a disaster,” he said.

For three decades, this grounded sailor was the soul – and the sole inhabitant – of a small deserted Italian island. On Budelli, an idyllic rock in the vicinity of a larger island – wild ...

Mauro Morandi was nicknamed Robinson Crusoe by the media after being identified as the sole resident of Budelli island, an old World War II shelter off the Italian island of Sardinia. He prided ...