Presó Natural

On Saturday we were once again carried off on an adventure with willing Catalan tour guides. The guides in question this time were a young couple that we met through our friend Laura - Joanna and Francesc. Joanna is an English teacher and Laura's roommate in Manresa, Francesc is her boyfriend and muy catalanista. Together the five of us jumped into their car and made our way to el Pla de Busa. This is a mountain formation in which one small portion of the mountain is separated by a large gap and stands isolated and surrounded by sheer cliffs all around. They call it a "natural prison" and during the Napoleonic wars in 1811 the Spanish resistance fighters help their French prisoner on this mountaintop. To get them there they used a fallen tree stump as a bridge. Now their is a metal plank connecting one side to the other. We hiked the trail in the sunshine but still cool temperatures and all made our careful way across the plank.

On the way back down we passed through a wide open field and we were so overcome with feeling after returning safely from the prison that we couldn't contain ourselves and went bounding through the field with joy.