It’s the change we never thought would happen… Harvey the Campervan has gone to a new home!

If you’ve been around Dock-World from the start, you’ll recognise our little blue-and-white VW Bay Window – he was my daily driver back in the early days of the Dock, as well as being the focal point for our early Meet The Neighbours events and Christmas parties.

He even starred in Mission Titanic (or the Dock Doc as we called it) – the fly-on-the-wall documentary about the formation of Dock Cafe – the story of the man who went looking for a boat and found something so much better instead:

Mission Titanic Part 1: The Man Who Goes Looking For A Boat… from The DOCK on Vimeo.

(If you haven’t seen it, the whole documentary is online here: Part One –  Part Two –  Part Three – and Harvey is the star right from the first frame!)

Looking back at the Dock Doc, it’s almost overwhelming so see how the Titanic Quarter has grown and flourished in the four lightning-fast years since the camera crews were following us… We’ve seen numbers of visitors to Dock Cafe absolutely skyrocket, the opening of Dock Market and Dock Picnic, the start of Sunday Nights at the Dock on SS Nomadic and then in Dock Cafe, the formation of Dock knitters and book group and prayer team and so much more… Since Dock Cafe has opened, Titanic Belfast opened its doors for the first time – as did SS Nomadic, Cast & Crew, and in recent days Titanic Exhibition Centre… The Wee Tram, the Segway Tours and Cable & Wake have started operation…  We’ve been overwhelmed by the crowds at the Giro Big Start and the Tall Ships festival…And we’ve been joined by our wonderful next-door neighbours in the Mace & Green Deli:

And now the latest great news is that we have more new neighbours joining us at the ARC over the next few weeks: the unit beside the Mace is going to become home to The Belfast Baking Company – so the smell of freshly-baked bread and cakes will be wafting through the air at the ARC apartments very soon…  More life and activity, more new faces, more creativity, more reasons to celebrate and enjoy every minute of Life in the Titanic Quarter.