Mauro
In the third episode of Across the Mediterranean Sea Saturday evening the program travels from Corsica to Sardinia. On the way they pass the island of Budelli. A place in the La Maddalena archipelago. The small island has only one resident, and that is 80-year-old Mauro.
Hauben compares Mauro to Robinson Crusoe. “No, I’m not Robinson,” Mauro says. “Robinson wanted to return to society, I don’t want that. I’m Mauro. I don’t like society that much, I like nature.”
Solar panels
Mauro lives in a small house, but is not short of anything. He generates all the power he needs with solar panels and has built an entire meter box outside. “I also have a mousetrap, because I don’t want mice in the house.”
The islander lives completely isolated on Budelli. He can’t just go shopping. “In the summer my food is brought by skippers who sail with the tourists. In winter, a fisherman friend comes by. I ask him to take things with him when he comes fishing nearby.”
Love
Although Mauro has lived alone at Budelli for years, he does have a girlfriend. He doesn’t really miss anything from the mainland, except her. They met four years ago. “She visited me. She loves nature and animals and saw me in videos on Youtube.” Through Messenger they start talking and they fall in love. “She also hates society, but her job requires her to stay there.”
Hauben asks him what it was like to see her for the first time. “What do you care?” the 80-year-old jokes. “The first meeting was very passionate. It had been 20 years since I had touched a woman.”
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