Dragons, daffodils, and Transport for Wales trains—just a few of the delights you'll find in Wales' very own metaverse. The Welsh government claims"Wales has become the first UK nation to launch in the metaverse". A virtual glimpse of the real wonders that lie just down the M4, providing you stay on past Bristol.) metaverse from the comfort of my South Wales home. It's a green and pleasant land, filled with a number of Welsh flags and daffodils.
It's easy to poke fun at the Cymru metaverse. And rightly so, if the Welsh Government spent any sort of money on this. Yet I am taken by one tiny aspect of it: the miniature TfW train that shoots out of a tunnel on one side of a tiny stretch of track and back into another tunnel on the other end. Over and over. Living in a town that recently received new trains as a part of the South Wales Metro plans, I talk about new TfW carriages to anyone who will listen.