In September of 2020, shortly prior to the reinstating of the national lockdown, I was invited in passing to travel across the country with a family friend to stay for a while in an apple orchard in Iden.

In Norse mythology, Iðunn (Idunn) was the goddess of rejuvenation and the coming of spring. She was the keeper of the sacred apples of immortality, which the gods ate to preserve their youth.

I’d like to imagine that the little village along the south coast derives its name from the Norse goddess, and though I couldn't find any concrete evidence to back this up it still felt like too close of a coincidence to ignore. And to myself and many of the people there, it was indeed a little garden of freedom and youth away from the word.