Best present moment ever

What was my best present moment?  Well, the best eight months of my life was researching my Ph.D. thesis in London, England, in the mid-1990s.  I did do a lot of research, but I found time to do a lot of other stuff.  I went to a Proms concert in Albert Hall.  I even went on a couple of protest marches for Bosnia, and heard Vanessa Redgrave speaking in Trafalgar Square. (That's a once in a lifetime experience.) And I saw a dozen plays, and the silent movie Sunrise accompanied by a live orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall!

I had a lot of enjoyable experiences.  I actually enjoyed food shopping because I felt independent.  And there was the time I wanted to find this statue of John Bunyan.  I found the spot on a map but when I went there I couldn't see it.  Then one day I was riding in the top half of a Routemaster bus, and there was the statue!  They'd put it outside a church at the second-storey level.

I also enjoyed visiting Hampstead in the north. (There was the Everyman Cinema there, where I saw movies like Vanya on 42nd Street.  You could get there by subway, but I preferred the bus.  Once I went on a walking tour of that neighbourhood where they showed the house that was the model for Admiral Boom's house in Mary Poppins, and a place where you could see part of the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral.