tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post690954737198892842..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: Waterloo Bridge 1826Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-91313181434224226962015-03-13T12:00:47.372-04:002015-03-13T12:00:47.372-04:00Hermann Pückler-Muskau is my role model! You have ...Hermann Pückler-Muskau is my role model! You have to admire the man - he adapted to every situation without batting an eyelid. He loved to travel and wrote well about his travels. When he was out of money, he walked, wrote about it, earned a bit and travelled on with an enormous retinue until money ran out... He married the older Lucie and when he ran out of funds again, they divorced amicably so that he could travel to Britain and look for a heiress to marry (and to take home to Lucie, who continued to live in his home and only got mad when he brought the slave Mahbouba home from one of his travels. Mahbouba died young, though, so the non-marriage to Lucie was saved). That didn't work out, but he was so inspired by English gardens that he immediately had to have one at home. When he ran out of money again, he was forced to sell Muskau castle and retire to the much smaller Branitz. Where he immediately stomped another English garden out of the sandy soil. He actually changed the border between Germany and Poland by diverting the river Oder in order to fit his gardening plans. Changing the German language by introducing certain English words he liked didn't work quite as well, though. Jindranoreply@blogger.com