You can refer to the pleasure and excitement of doing something new or exciting as romance. We want to recreate the romance and excitement that used to be part of rail journeys
v: Usually used to describe the courting-like behavior sometimes applied by sales people when attracting new clients, the word has an older much more appropriate definition; To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories
Romance refers to the actions and feelings of people who are in love, especially behaviour which is very caring or affectionate. He still finds time for romance by cooking candlelit dinners for his girlfriend
talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"
Romance is used to refer to novels about love affairs. Since taking up writing romance in 1967 she has brought out over fifty books
A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like