Couple who have been living off-grid on a remote tropical island for THREE YEARS candidly reveal their biggest challenges Marjolein and An live off grid on an outcrop in Indonesia's Mentawai Islands In a film from Exploring Alternatives, they reveal what their daily routine is like 'What I love most about living here is the sense of independence,' Marjolein says By Sadie Whitelocks For Dailymail.com Published: 22:27, 26 June 2024 | Updated: 22:33, 26 June 2024 e-mail View comments Living off coconuts, collecting rain water, and no phone signal - welcome to island life. Surfers Marjolein and her partner An star in a documentary where they discuss how they ditched modern day conveniences to live off grid on a tropical outcrop in Indonesia's Mentawai Islands.
In the short film from Exploring Alternatives , they reveal what their daily routine is really like and how they survive by living off the land. Marjolein, who is originally from Belgium, explains in the introduction: 'We live on a tiny island in Indonesia . The island we're on is about 5km in diameter and there's no villages or roads.
.. so all the transport is done by boat with wooden boats handmade locally.
'We are completely off-grid. What I love most about living here is the sense of independence. We can provide our own electricity, our own water, our own food and that's pretty cool.
' Surfers Marjolein and her partner An star in a documentary where they talk about how they ditched modern day conveniences to live off gri.
