stevelancaster

Travel insurance covers very little, contents insurance ends when you leave and doesn't begin until you've moved in somewhere and taken out a contents policy.

So did any of you manage to take out insurance for things like engagement rings, watches, other expensive items for your travel to Aus and any holiday along the way?

Beoz

I believe my contents insurance covered it in and out of the house. Its a separate listed item with an insured value.

stevelancaster

Which contents insurance? You would have left your old house and not started at a new one?

Beoz

You are right. It couldn't have been contents. I can't recall off top of my head but I know we got some insurance for the travel and then the month we stayed in a serviced apartment.

Thinking about it now I may have gone to an insurer who was prepared to do country moves for a limited time. Let me have a think about what we did and who it was with.

Beoz

OK. Just checked through some old emails. What I did in the end was use the UK contents insurance right up until date of departure, use travel insurance for the trip, got a months contents insurance registered to the serviced apartment, then got new contents insurance when we found a place.

Bit of a ball ache, but that's the go. I did have a number of emails to insurance brokers and the like and I couldn't find anyone willing to do the whole lot.

Just check the catch on the travels on route. I seem to remember there being a few rejections if you weren't travelling back to the UK after departing as you no longer had a UK address.

For the months worth of contents insurance I used Allianz then rolled it into the new address when I found a place.