Rue du Rhône

Shopping and banking street in central Geneva, Switzerland.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Neither Here Nor There	Bill Bryson	journey waypoint	An afternoon in a bank basement claiming a refund.

Neither Here Nor There — Bill Bryson (1991)

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Finding nothing to detain me there, I went straight to the Union Bank of Switzerland offices on the Rue du Rhône to claim my refund on my Visa travelers’ checks. I was directed to a small room in the basement, where international transactions were dealt with.

• Role: journey waypoint
• In the book: In Geneva Bryson goes straight to the Union Bank of Switzerland on the Rue du Rhône to claim a refund for his stolen travellers’ cheques, and is sent to a small basement room for international transactions, where it takes most of the afternoon.
• Why it matters: The end of the stolen-cheques thread; minor.