Mom comes for a visit

My mom visited me in Spain for a week just one week before I had to go back home. We had a great time and did lots of traveling, some of which I'll post here, some of which you may never see...most of our time was spent in short trips in the vicinity of Salamanca, as her mid-week arrival and departure meant that it would be a long trip to Madrid.

We saw a lot of Spanish countryside. It used to be flat and have trees, but the Spaniards were so inspired by the desktop background of Windows XP that they landscaped the entire country:


This is Mom in front of Tordesillas, a tiny town famous for being the location where Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, wherein Spain got a leg up on Portugal in the New World (but hey, Portugal already dominated sea trade to the Indian Ocean and Brasil so who cared about those few little islands that Columbus had found?).

We had a nice time visiting their small museum and picnicking by the river.