Questura di Firenze

Police headquarters in Florence, Italy.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Neither Here Nor There	Bill Bryson	journey waypoint	Reporting stolen travellers’ cheques in a bare, flaking room.

Neither Here Nor There — Bill Bryson (1991)

Source: Neither Here Nor There · Readwise highlight

I presented myself at the guardroom of the Questura and was directed upstairs to a waiting room, a bare cell with gray, flaking walls and a high ceiling.

• Role: journey waypoint
• In the book: After a child pickpocket takes his travellers’ cheques as he leaves Florence, an unhelpful station policeman sends Bryson to the Questura. He takes a cab and waits upstairs in a bare cell of a room with flaking grey walls.
• Why it matters: It sets up the cheque-refund saga that follows him to Geneva.