With 836 Wetherspoon pubs in the UK, the battle for the top spot on TripAdvisor in any one town or city is going to be intense. But when one Welsh pub made the top 20 in the entire UK, I was a bit taken aback. I've been to it a few times but never thought it would be named among the very best of close to 1,000 pubs.
So for the first time in my 28 years I headed to The Central Hotel in Shotton, Flintshire, with a different goal in mind: to remember the occasion (or try to anyway) and enjoy all those great Wetherspoony qualities that you don't get in independent pubs: the trippy carpets, the curry nights, the dirt cheap pints and the raucous atmosphere.
