A research team from the University of Waterloo in Canada laid out the journey on an interactive Google map. It comes in at 45,495 kilometres, which is longer than the circumference of the Earth itself.
The pub crawl doesn’t have a start or finish. Drinkers could theoretically start at any one pub in the country and eventually end up back where they started.
However, the team behind the map told The Guardian the map was created “as a means for developing and testing general-purpose optimization methods” rather than encouraging the nation’s drinkers.
The longest distance between two pubs on the journey is approximately 435 kilometres between the Sango Sands Oasis in Durness, Scotland and the Bells But & Ben in Shetland, which requires two ferry rides and would take approximately 50 hours.
- View the entire interactive map.