You often see old people go down the rabbit hole with a weird obsession when they get older and 83 year old John Hunt.

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John has spent the last 11 years visiting Wetherspoons all over the country in a bid to order an Abbots Ale in each and every one of them. He usually travels by train, bus or taxi to reach them and was able to cross off the 900th on his list after visiting the Kingswinford near Birmingham over the weekend.

Here’s what he had to say about his experience:

I live on my own, you see and that was it, I ain’t gonna sit indoors watching telly, it’s no good for me.

Some of them have closed down and some of them are opening new ones up, that’s what gets me.

I think I did them all in Birmingham until someone came up to me and said ‘have you done that one in Kings Norton yet?

I said ‘there was not one there’ and they said ‘there is’. So I’ve got to go up there now.

Once I visited nine pubs in a day in Bournemouth and I was pretty jolly by the end of it.

If you’ve had a pint in every one of them you’ve had a good day.

My favourite one is the Opera House in Tunbridge Wells but  also like The Palladium in Llandudno, Wales.

Well, what an inspiration the guy is. Great to see someone a bit older getting out there and doing something that they’re proud of, even if it’s as banal as visiting every pub in a certain chain. Hopefully John manages to visit them all in the near future – doesn’t sound like he’s got too many left.

For more of the same, check out when a guy bit the head off a pigeon outside of Wetherspoons. Lethal.