It took 6 months and a great deal of aggravation, but I am finally a Maltese resident.  I'm still a US citizen, I just reside in Malta. That means I can now travel freely around Europe for as long as I want.  Normally, a non-EU citizen can only stay for 3 months in any EU country.  I will probably stay in Malta for the foreseeable future, but now I have options.  The day I got my ID card, I came home and booked a trip to Barcelona.  It looks like my blog will get interesting again! It's now the height of summer and just like everyone said, it is hot, hot, hot!  Europe is currently experiencing a heat wave and Malta is one of the hottest places with temps 95°+ (35 °) and high humidity.  This weekend it's supposed to be well over 100 °.  People are advised to stay indoors.  Great, I have no AC and one of my two fans just died.  The infrastructure here isn't the greatest and an island wide power outage would not surprise me at all.  Lucky for me, I live right