I didn't know you could take an actual tour there... Wonder what the family would think about that for a vacation idea

I remember being glued to the TV as the Chernobyl disaster unfolded. My heart was in my ​mouth when I watched the brave Russian helicopter pilots, knowing they were going to die of radiation poisoning, dropping load after load of cement over the reactor site until they were to sick to go on.

I just get the feeling it attracts a certain disaster fetishism for the sake of getting some cool looking Instagram pictures of Pryipat. And it's easy to forget that what happened there caused a lot of suffering--death, illness, abandoning one's home, and there's just something about just taking a cavalier "cool" look at it cheapens things. Not that I don't appreciate Simon Ostrovsky giving an insight into it (he's a hell of a journalist), but treating the Chernobyl area like it's scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef rubs me the wrong way.

But I never ever want to go to Ukraine. Its way down the list, like just above Romania.