At the time of writing I've been back home in France exactly a week. Our original plan was to fly out of Perth in Western Australia on Sunday 15 March, stay a few days in Singapore, then fly home on Thursday 19 March. However … I had an e-mail from Singapore Airlines on Friday 13 March (well, what can you expect on Friday the 13th) saying our flight from Singapore to France on Thursday 19 March had been cancelled. So we badly needed a Plan B. I started by floundering around on the telephone in Perth on Saturday morning, including 18-minutes hanging on to a mobile phone call to Singapore (which ran my poor old pay-as-you-go Australian mobile out of money) while listening to Muzak and hoping to talk to somebody, anybody. After 18 minutes of mindless Muzak I gave up and switched to the Singapore Airlines web site, which proved to be equally ineffectual. We finally decided that the best bet was to go to the airport and talk to the Singapore Airlines customer service desk. This turned out to be a good call. The Singapore Airlines staffer who answered our query was amazing. She told us that the last flight out of Singapore to CDG in the foreseeable future was that night, and the last connecting flight out of Perth to catch it left at 5:30 that afternoon., which meant being back at the airport at 3:30. It was by then a bit after one o'clock. So we raced back to our base in Perth, ate lunch and threw everything into a suitcase in the space of an hour, and fled. After that, everything worked and we got home without a hitch.