Frickosaurus

Yesterday we went to see a friend who is staying in Rheinfelden, a tiny town at the very north of Switz, just over the river from Germany. I'm sure no one else would agree with me (and really, it does seem kind of a mean thing to say considering the lovely time we had having dinner and lounging on the rooftop terrace and so on) but the highlight of the trip was definitely this big metal dinosaur sitting in the middle of a roundabout in the entertainingly named town of Frick (hee hee), which we saw from the bus on the way to Rheinfelden. It was all very reminiscent of my childhood, when we used to see a big and garishly-coloured fake dinosaur (more of the papier mache variety than the all-weather metal type, but still) sitting in a field whenever we went to visit my aunty Pat.

Sadly we had no camera at the time, and a brief and half-hearted google search yields nothing useful either, so you'll have to wait (possibly forever) to see the Frickosaur.

UPDATE: Thanks to Nick (and www.frick.ch), here he (the dinosaur, not Nick) is. Imagine him more lumpy and home-made looking, and a bizarre fluorescent type colour and you have aunty Pat's version.