Travel Insurance
As Asturias56 suggests, here's a new thread to accommodate the thread drift from the EES thread. It seems there's sufficient interest in the subject of Travel Insurance to make a thread on the subject viable.
I don't have a Nationwide FlexPlus account, only a FlexAccount, so I just shopped around for someone who would accept my history of cancer and ongoing Meniere's (which implies a higher risk of falls and broken bones), The cheapest varies from year to year. This year it was Assicurazione Generali. You have to have an address in Italy, no insurer seems to have grasped that some people have two-centre lives.
Car insurance is so much higher in Italy than in the UK that I don't drive there, if I want a car for the day I hire one, (this is infrequent) otherwise I use public transport - Travel Insurance however is about the same though, so I insure in whichever country works out cheaper. At the moment the £ is weak against the €, so next year the UK will probably be cheaper.