We were in one of those fatigued end-of-week moods, where we were looking for any kind of travelling [the armchair kinds, of course] to offer temporary respite after another locked-in working week, where days, nights, and everything in between slip into newfound routines that we're learning to adjust to. Well, just about.

And as luck would have it, a travel channel on the telly was airing a show where a knowledgeable Brit anchor was in South Korea, sharing a 10-day itinerary. Shot in the pre-pandemic era, by the time we had tuned in, he had reached Busan, the country's busiest port and nucleus of commercial activity. As we glided through its sights and sounds, the city faintly reminded us of Bombay – port city, business hub, shopping and food hotspots, and cinema – it is home to Asia's biggest film festival – the annual Busan International Film Festival. It offers a stunning cable car ride across its bay; we immediately began to imagine the possibilities of that here, in Mahim Bay.