Antony

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.” 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

More narrow Devon country lanes to Antony, a Georgian house about fifteen miles and another world away, through the morning mists shrouding the coast. A walk around the gardens to enjoy the views over the estuary, something of a treasure hunt to find the riddles and artwork spread around the grounds –
Can run but never walks,
Has a mouth but never talks,
Has a head but never weeps,
Has a bed but never sleeps.
(thanks to the staff at Antony for this bit of diverting entertainment).
fortunately they gave us the answers at the end.
While at Cotehele earlier in the week we’d been recommended to visit Mount Edgcumbe, once the home of the Carew Pole family from Cotehele, so we headed off there and spent an hour walking the grounds and down to the water’s edge – it’s now a country park overlooking the Tamar estuary and across to Plymouth.