“I want to go to the places where I don’t meet all those tourist people who do their normal stuff,” he says.Is this your idea of a good time? Do you hate the tourist queues? A German named Billy Six (yes) backpacks from one seething cauldron of civil war to another. Maybe his secret is his dress - literally.
Despite his dirty blond hair, beard and blue eyes, Billy tries to blend in. He dresses in the traditional Muslim garb of rural North Africa, the long dress-like jalabiya, and a white skull cap.
He is currently walking and hitchhiking across Africa. He says he lives cheaply, takes the occasional odd job, but mostly relies on the kindness of strangers.
And after running into Billy twice an NPR reporter speaks frankly:
I began to think that Billy Six was either adventurous to the point of recklessness, or a brilliant German intelligence asset, or maybe just mad as a German hatter.
Read more or listen here.
I believe this is his website (in German).
(Brad)