UKRAINE

This trip to a wintry Ukraine (there’s no need for a ‘the’ prefix anymore) was the deepest we’d ravelled into Eastern Europe, a part of the world which has witnessed such tumult and transformation in the decades following the denouement of the Cold War.*

As fans of all things Le Carré, the freezing temperatures felt somewhat appropriate for our journey; shorts and sunshine aren’t things we’ve come to readily associate with post-Soviet hinterlands.

This was our experience of Chernobyl in winter.

*unfortunately, following Russia’s invasion, such tumult has returned and it is now not recommended to visit Ukraine for obvious reasons.