After a few days of outdoorsy, wholesome activity in the mountains, we needed a place to crash while reaclimatising to the rancid stench and cocophonous noise of city life. In other words, getting back to normal. All that fresh air was making me nauseous. We stayed for a couple more nights in Mendoza city at a hostel that might as well have been called The Bates Motel. Our room had original 1950s wood panelling and we saw some fabulous retro lino on the wall of another room. Lino on the wall! Just imagine... There was a little speaker with a dial that you could switch on to pipe Argentinian Easy Listening into your room. It was one of the best mod-cons I´ve ever encountered. The hostel was definitely the stuff of horror films. Inspired, we spent much of our time there motioning the Psycho knife jab, feigning terror and generally hamming it up in a cartoon ´Carry On Haunted House´type fashion. Note Matty´s excellent rendition of Edvard Munch´s ´The Scream´. 
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