Nº 302 JANUARY 2025ESSENTIAL MAGAZINE

Happy New Year!

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Join us in sipping tea on the roof of the world in Darjeeling as we contemplate the new year ahead.

Find out which important anniversaries are coming up through the year and see the Pantone Colour for 2025.

Check out the magnificent new McLaren W1 and be prepared to be mesmerised by Miguel Fontgivell’s Oboria Digital Architecture, who designed The Sphere in Las Vegas.
Get to know Aaron Taylor-Johnson whose Kraven The Hunter has just hit the big screen and who is currently leading the running as the next Bond.

Meet the Marbella Basketball Team in their 50th Anniversary season and the personnel behind Christie’s International Real Estate’s new office in Madrid and The Agency in Marbella.
Head inland for a gastronomic tour of idyllic mountain village, Benahavís, and visit the stunning LA Almazara Olive Mill and Museum in Ronda.

Finally, take into account the change in the law on drink driving, coming into force on January 1st.

IAIN BLACKWELL, PUBLISHER

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