On the road (and plane) to Oz

Finished work about midday and got ourselves ready for our chauffeur pick-up. We'd saved enough Virgin Atlantic loyalty points to get some great discount on Upper Class which included a chauffeur pick-up. I had to ask who else the driver had a famous passengers which he replied with an impressive list including Naomi Campbell and Steve Coogan. The car didn't have a privacy screen and he didn't wear a peaked hat. For the first time ever I was almost car sick by the end of the journey as the driver kept blipping the accelerator rocking the car to and fro up the mototway.
We arrived at Virgin Clubhouse at Heathrow via the private road then the check-in staff took our bags. The only thing that didn't quite complete the perfect experience was the standard (yet speedy) security check and walk through the hoi poloi of the retail area.
The actual Virgin Clubhouse lounge was pretty cool but no one famous flying that day. Haircut was complimentary but any further services had to be paid for. Cocktails were the best part of the experience and any longer there we could have been carried out instead. Some excellent food and table top video games before the flight.
On the plane, Upper Class rocked! The seat/bed really did make the 24 hour flight very relaxing. Watched the excellent but complicated Tinker Tailor Solider Spy on the first leg before Hong Kong. We only had about 40 minutes in Hong Kong in Virgin's modest lounge. On the second leg before arriving in Sydney I mostly slept but managed to fit in watching Drive, a slow building, cool film but had all the exciting bits in the last 30 minutes.