Keeping up with the changes

Our flights have changed

Singapore Airlines sent us emails out of the blue the other day, moving us out of the nice upper deck economy seats we had nabbed for both the flights between Sydney and Singapore, and in both cases moving us to a seat that doesn't actually exist on an A380.
Now it has become clear why - they contacted me on Thursday to ask if we'd be prepared to move to another flight for Sydney to Singapore, and then later confirmed that they'd like us to move to another flight on the return trip as well.
Turns out that they've replaced the A380 with a 777 on both of these flights - and of course the 777 doesn't carry as many passengers.
So, we're now leaving Sydney a few hours earlier on 6 September, and we have decided to travel up to Sydney the night before rather than having to leave Canberra way before dawn.
Similarly, we're leaving Singapore a few hours later on the way back - 7:00am rather than the 1:00am flight we were on.  We don't get home until late afternoon on 13 October now, so we'll stay in Sydney overnight before coming home to Canberra.  I'm going to take the opportunity to come home on the train, which I've never tried before as the times have never been quite right.
Both of the Singapore - London legs are unchanged, so we've got a longer break in Singapore both ways.  We were always planning to stay in the transit hotel in Singapore, so now it's a slightly longer one; despite the extension neither stop-over is long enough to get a good rest and to see any of the city.
I'm sure that we'll get a chance to see Singapore some other time; Singapore Airlines starts flying direct Canberra-Singapore flights in late September.  So, any future trips we do to Europe will start and end with a flight to between Canberra and Singapore rather than having to waste time going through Sydney.

And our cruise has changed

That isn't the biggest change for the holiday though.
Princess has finally decided that they're not going to risk taking us to Istanbul, which is a real disappointment.
We have just been told that on our cruise we won't be going to Istanbul, but they've moved our days around so we're going to Corfu in Greece instead.
Our itinerary still includes a stop in Kusadasi in Turkey. However, the people on a similar Royal Princess cruise that starts this weekend have just been told that they're not going to Kusadasi either now, and their trip has been completely moved around for the second time (it had already changed once when they dropped Istanbul).  They're now going to Corfu and to Kotor (in Montenegro) replacing both of their stops in Turkey.
So, it's likely that we will also also miss Kusadasi - which means even more changes.  Our cruise is actually two seven day cruises and both had a stop in Kusadasi; so there could be changes in that part of the cruise too.
The cruise we're on now isn't an itinerary I'd have chosen, but these things happen.  I'm very sad for the Turkish people and all of the troubles they're having, and I truly hope to visit Turkey one day.