Some men collect stamps. Others spend their weekends on the golf course. Me? I’ve spent the last 42 years visiting pubs.
Not just the odd one or two, either. I’ve just clocked up my 25,000th, which I reckon makes me something of an expert on the great British boozer.
Along the way I’ve sunk an estimated 60,000 pints, spent around £336,000 and travelled from my home in West Bromwich as far north as Shetland and as far south as the Scilly Isles, taking in 69 British islands and every county in between on the way.
And before you ask, yes, my wife Dawn
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