Saturday 4 October 2008

Houston Texas


Well it's exactly five days before we fly off to sunny Houston for the World Kuk Sool Championships and 50th anniversary event.

If you've never been to Houston then I would like to enlighten you with some interesting facts about the place as i've vistited the city about seven or eight times.

  • Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States
  • The Houston area covers approx 8,778 sq miles about the same size as Israel
  • More than ninety languages are spoken throughout the Houston area
  • Houston has the largest (Texas) medical centre in the world
  • It has the second lowest cost of living among major American cities
  • Houston is considered by many as the 'energy' capital of the world
  • Houston is one of the world's most air-conditioned cities
  • When you look at a map Houston shares the same east-west line as Cairo, Kuwait City,Delhi (it's hot)
  • The Astrodome in Houston has been nicknamed as 'the eight wonder of the world'.
  • The Houston climate is classified as sub-tropical
  • The coldest temperature to ever be recorded in Houston was -15c degrees in 1940

1 comment:

Paul Squires said...

Good work. Been a while since I caught up with the blog. Looks like the fitness regime is working- Can't beleive you kept it up on holiday so well. Mind out for the high calorie super-refined carbohydrates in the USA- I tripped over a few while I was there! We need to do spirometry to measure your lung capacity in more detail when I return to work- so long as you promise not to break the machine!