Follow the Monks, she said!

It's a long story, but it is Devon Arts Week and a friend and I always try to visit the open studios around the county. It takes us to some really out of the way places sometimes, some inderscribably beautiful. Today we tracked down some really lovely artwork in a VERY out of the way studio. We were asking if there was a less tortuous route back to civilisation when the artist, who had a couple of Bhuddist Monks visiting (as you do) told us that they were being driven back to their monastery so she uttered the great phrase...just follow the monks.
...On the single track roads, whenever we met another car it was always by a layby and we turned on to the main road just before a huge artic. turned into the maze of narrow roads we were just leaving, coincidence or what?