 MSC Lirica berthed at Harwich International Port On Friday 13th April 2012, Dream Designs Colchester had the honour of joining a group of Travel Agents aboard MSC Lirica, whilst the vessel was berthed alongside the cruise terminal at Harwich International Port. We had originally contacted MSC Cruises earlier this year to discuss with them the possibility of visiting the ship whilst berthed in Harwich and to request permission to both board the ship, but to also officially present an especially assigned drawing of the vessel to the Captain and his crew. MSC Cruises were kind enough to offer us such an opportunity and granted us permission to join a group of Travel Agents aboard MSC Lirica, during her first of 2 visits to Harwich International Port during the 2012 cruise season. Visitors were asked to arrive at 10:30 to proceed with embarkation to be aboard MSC Lirica by 11:00. Our executive team members, made up of Harry Cotterill, President & Managing Director, Dream Designs Colchester and his parents Brian & Diane Cotterill arrived at Harwich International Port at 10:00 and before starting embarkation took the chance to take a number of photographs with Harry’s drawing with the ship berthed directly behind.  Harry Cotterill, President & Managing Director, Dream Designs Colchester and his mother Diane Cotterill, take the opportunity to have a photograph taken together with Harry's especially assigned drawing of MSC Lirica with the vessel berthed behind them at Harwich International Port on Friday 13th April 2012 before presenting the drawing on board At approximately 10:30 embarkation started, were each of the visitors were issued their passes to board MSC Lirica. Before Harry and his parents were taken aboard with the second group of Travel Agents visiting the ship and were met by Vanessa Tomasselli, Senior Group Executives, MSC Cruises, who had arranged for them to visit the ship and for the drawing presentation to take place.  Travel Agent visitors step aboard MSC Lirica after proceeding through the embarkation process at Harwich International Port, before beginning their tour of the vessel The second group of Travel Agents, as well as Harry and his parents were taken aboard the ship just before 11:00, were they were directed to the ship’s atrium and reception. The ship’s hostess then introduced herself to us and we began to tour MSC Lirica, exploring her numerous on board facilities throughout her 9 passenger decks. We were even lucky enough to view a small number of passenger cabins too, which were quite spacious and pleasant.  Travel Agents visitors explore MSC Lirica's on board facilities. Closest to camera on the left is Diane Cotterill (Mother of Harry Cotterill, President & Managing Director, Dream Designs Colchester) seen talking to Vanessa Tomasselli, Senior Group Executives, MSC Cruises At approximately 11:45 Harry and his parents were personally escorted to the ship’s atrium by Vanessa Tomasselli, Senior Group Executives, MSC Cruises, whilst the Travel Agents continued their tour of the ship’s upper decks with the ship’s hostess. They awaited in the atrium by the ship’s main reception whilst the Captain made his way down from the navigation bridge to meet them.  The Captain of MSC Lirica admires Harry Cotterill's especially assigned drawing of MSC Lirica in the ship's atrium, joined by Harry's parents, Brian & Diane Cotterill (Courtesy of MSC Cruises) A short moment later, Harry was met by the Captain and was given the opportunity to officially present his brand new especially assigned drawing of MSC Lirica to the Captain personally. The ship’s on board photographer was also there to capture the meeting and presentation too!  Harry Cotterill, President & Managing Director, Dream Designs Colchester, meets with the Captain of MSC Lirica on board the ship in the atrium to officially present his especially assigned drawing of the vessel (Courtesy of MSC Cruises) The Captain was delighted with our drawing and showed quite an interested. In fact, he was so enthusiastic and generally interested that we took the chance to show him one of our other drawing which we had assigned of MSC Cruises’ newest ship, MSC Divina which is due to enter service in May 2012.  Harry Cotterill, President & Managing Director, Dream Designs Colchester, surprises the Captain and crew of MSC Liricia by showing them another of his drawing of their newest ship, MSC Divina (Courtesy of MSC Cruises) In return for our drawing, the Captain presented Harry with a splendid model of MSC Magnifica, another MSC Cruises’ vessel and a fantastic book, ‘Cruising In Style’. What a lovely surprised and how kind!  The Captain of MSC Lirica surprises Harry Cotteirll, President & Managing Director, Dream Designs Colchester by presenting him with a model of MSC Magnifica the current newest ship in the MSC Cruises' fleet (Courtesy of MSC Cruises) Once the presentation was complete, Vanessa Tomasselli, Senior Group Executives, MSC Cruises then escorted Harry and his parents to ‘The Lirica Lounge’, where they joined the Travel Agents on board for a video presentation, which was then followed by a Q&A session, where snacks and refreshments were available. This gave the visitors the chance to ask any question they might have about the ship of MSC Cruises in general, whilst learning more about the company and what it has to offer guests on board.  Vanessa Tomasselli, Senior Group Executives, MSC Cruises hosts the Q&A session in 'The Lirica Lounge' aboard MSC Lirica after visitors had completed their tour of the ship Both of the groups of visitors where then invited to enjoy lunch on board MSC Lirica in one of the ship’s on board restaurants, ‘La Bussola’. Lunch was then followed by Tea & Coffee in ‘The Beverly Hills Bar’ adjacent to the restaurant where their lunch was served.  'La Bussola' restaurant where visitors were invited to enjoy lunch on aboard MSC Lirica after their guided tour of the ship Harry and his parents were then escorted to reception to collect the photographs which had been printed from the official drawing presentation earlier that afternoon. The photographs are truly fantastic and we were delighted to be presented with so many of them too! Visitors then disembarked MSC Lirica, after a truly wonderful time aboard.
 A close up view of our especially assigned drawing of MSC Lirica which we were honoured to be able to officially present to the Captain and his crew during our visit aboard the ship Harry Cotterill, President & Managing Director, Dream Designs Colchester, said: " I personally want to take this opportunity to extend my greatest appreciation and thanks to MSC Cruises for making us feel so welcome and for allowing us to both visit MSC Lirica, but also arranging for us to meet with the Captain to officially present our especially assigned drawing." He added: " We had an amazing time aboard and the ship far exceeded our expectations. We are delighted to have formed a friendship and connection with MSC Cruises and look forward to working with them closely again in the future." ENDS
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 Harry Cotterill working on a drawing Dear All, I wanted to take this opportunity to personally say "Thank You!" to everyone who visited the Dream Designs Colchester website during March 2012. With your help we managed to exceed all our previous records and recorded a record breaking 9191 page views and saw some 7589 unique visitors throughout the month. Some of your may think, only 9,000? Yes, 9,000 is still a small figure, but for a small, personal website and organisation, with no major marketing or promotion I think it's pretty impressive. It is clear Dream Designs Colchester is becoming more and more recognised as we continue to grow slowly and form connections with both more individuals but companies and organisations too, whether locally or internationally. On another note, hopefully you have noticed the dramatic transformation and improvement in my drawings recently. I have now developed a new scale which makes each drawing much more accurate. I have added photographs of the two newest drawings at the end of the blog post, which were the first to use the new scale! Thank you very much once again for your continued support and I hope we can break the website records again soon! Best wishes to you all, Harry Cotterill President & Managing Director Dream Designs Colchester Titanic
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