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THE NEXT TIME you enter a hotel room, peek at the back of a mirror, under a desk drawer, or inside a bible, and you may find a hilarious note saying something like “This hotel wasn’t half bad. It was all the way bad.”

For the past seven years, British comedian and graffiti artist David Bussell has been surreptitiously leaving irreverent notes in hotel rooms around the world.

Bussell said that he started doodling because a hotel he was staying in didn’t have a working TV, and it has since turned into somewhat of a tradition.

“I tend to just write whatever seems funny in the moment but certain objects have been known to inspire ideas: bathroom fittings, kitchen appliances, Gideon’s bibles,” Bussell said. “Mostly I just write in places that will only be searched out by the extremely curious though – nosey people like me.”

He said that he hasn’t seen any backlash from hotel owners yet—but jokes that he’ll be checking into hotels using his wife’s name from here on out.

All images courtesy of David Bussell.

Bussell’s very candid thoughts on a hotel in Oxford, England.

Presumably, this washed off easily from tiles in a hotel bathroom in Denver, Colorado.

An invitation to a treasure hunt written on the back of a painting in a hotel room in Budardalur, Iceland.

He had to climb up to a high ledge in the bathroom in Budir, Iceland to scribble this.

Bussell didn’t actually steal this painting (we think) in a hotel in Bexhill-on-Sea, England.

This slightly eerie message was written on the back of a painting frame in Havana, Cuba.

An almost existential note written in Co Monaghan.

Wait, which is which? Scrawled on mini alcohol bottles in a hotel in Bruges, Belgium.

- Jennifer Polland

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