We eventually left Istanbul and flew back to Odesa. By then it was late November 2017, and Anya and I had been traveling for months. We lived in Odesa and that had been home base, but never for long. The next month, in December, we headed north to Kyiv for Christmas. We pick up the story of Erik Travels The World there. We arrived in Kyiv before Christmas with snow on the streets, Christmas lights everywhere, and the city carrying that strange mixture of ordinary life and ver