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What are all these dissimilar people doing together?

There are families with young children side-by-side with middle-aged ramblers. Baseball-capped clubbers stand next to elderly gents in Panama hats. There are beer-swilling boozers, golfers, honeymoon couples, bronzed surfing types and fashionable young women clutching copies of Vogue and Tatler. Some are speaking English, others German, Dutch or Scandinavian (and quite a few Castilian Spanish).

A social anthropologist would have a field day at Tenerife airport.

Travel Telegraph's Paul Mansfield reminds us that on Tenerife and its surrounding islands - well known for their hedonistic beach culture - there are alternative attractions.

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