My last month in Scotland was a month of travelling, visits and finishing things. First two weeks I was occupied with editing stuff for a forthcoming niin & näin Leibniz-package which - as always with editing jobs - takes much more time than one can imagine beforehand.
For this purpose I also interviewed Pauline Phemister, my hostess in the University of Edinburgh.
Another work-related thing in June was participating to Locke-workshop in the University of St. Andrews. I commented a paper on freedom by Juliet Walsh and as this was the first Locke-workshop for some time, I was lucky to be around.
Present was also my colleague from Jyväskylä and now in Humboldt Universität Berlin Vili Lähteenmäki who gave a paper on Locke's views on consciousness. Before that there were visits by Tuomas Tiainen from Turku and Juhana Lemetti from Helsinki, not to forget our friends Ykä and Päivi, so in June I spoke a lot of Finnish and showed people around.
In the middle of the month we finally managed to travel up north. We visited Inverness for three days and took a day-trip to Loch Ness and isle of Skye. Lots of mountains and sheep, I can tell you! Great views and sunny and warm for a change. In Scotland the rule is: the more north you go, the better the weather!
Every nice thing has to come to an end and reluctantly we packed our incredibly heavy suitcases and travelled to Helsinki (both weighed exactly the maximum but not more!). The nice thing though is the fact that in Helsinki there is summer, sunny and warm while in Scotland it poured for days and the place is now flooding. I hope we did not leave the tap on when we left...
