Friendly Yorkshire We got up early and drove to Yorkshire this week. So early in fact we got to Ilkley Lido at 8 am ! Ilkley was recently rated the best place to live in England. And you can see why. Not many places are built around a municipal park the size of Hyde Park, and where you can walk out of the high street Boots, (or Griggs with a steak bake), and see remote high moorland on one side and wooded and meadowed fields on the other. Stone walls all tumbling down and cows dotting the landscape. We parked right outside the lido where for £2.60 we could explore the swimming pool, now renovated at great expense during covid. The receptionist seemed to treat everyone as a close friend and so gave us completely new customers an especially fine welcome. People greeted each other going in and then coming out. The receptionist was happy to talk about the temperature to each person in the line. We walked out of the changing rooms into the grassy sunshine overlooking Ilkley rugby