Travel love stories: They hit it off but he went silent. Then she picked up the phone [Video]

When a few weeks passed and Nana Prempeh still hadn’t heard from the guy she met on vacation, she turned to her friends for advice.

“At least half of them were like, ‘Don’t call him. Don’t contact him. It’s a holiday romance. It’s done. It’s finished,’ ” Nana tells CNN Travel today.

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Nana respected this perspective – it was, she figured, the logical conclusion. She was in London. Edouard, her vacation romance, was in Spain.

But Nana kept replaying their first date in her head – the deserted beach, swimming at dusk, kissing on the sand.

“I couldn’t stop thinking about him,” she says.

A handful of her friends were more magnanimous, suggesting maybe Edouard was busy, perhaps she should wait and see if he called.

One friend’s advice stood out.

“Stood out distinctly …” says Nana. “Because she had actually married a guy she’d met on …