Not so Prague-matic!

I am travelling again. And, all I wanted was to go to Prague in Czech Republic as I desperately wanted to be there because of a bridge. That bridge of « Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam« ! Do you remember the famous bridge? That scene when Ajay Devgan leaves Aishwarya to Salman… I am talking about that bridge.

I first saw the bridge in a blockbuster Bollywood movie around the extreme end of the twentieth century, in 1999. I was seventeen. I was so impressed by the grandeurof the bridge that it instantly became part of all my fantasies.

I was awaiting the moment. The moment of visiting the bridge. The moment finally came, exactly 23 years later in an odd set of circumstances.

A friend has recently moved to Prague and wanted me to be there for a long week_end. After a couple of weeks of prevarications, I finally decided to go there. All I wanted, among other things, was to see the bridge and it was just a matter of few weeks. And voilà, I would be proudly standing in front of the bridge.

My friend and his family started making plans and I applied for my day off. First, the trip was due in the first week of December but due to Covid, the airlines postponed it to the last week of January.

All was well. I was in Sweden and again applied for my time off. My request was approved by my office (in anyway, I am not paid when I am on holiday, so why bother? ) and to my utter dismay, no sooner did I a get the approval than within seconds a second mail, now from the airlines, informed me that they had cancel my flights due to Covid restrictions.

I was shocked (I am easily shocked by a lot of things)! All I wanted was to see the bridge, that particular bridge. I wanted to be there. But the only problem, cherry on top, the bridge was nowhere to be found in Prague. The film was shot in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. That’s another story, I will tell you later.

Of course you understand what I was going through the moment I realised that all my plans were about to go in vain. You are right. I was simply annoyed.

So what I did? I booked a long week-end in the Rome of France, Nîmes. And I am going there, alone, and would like you to be with me.

But if you want to know more about it and can’t wait for me to take you through, feel free to quench your thirst: https://www.nimes-tourisme.com/fr/

A bientôt from Nîmes /nim/!