Images have been released of a 16-year-old diary discovered in the back of a New Zealand campervan in an attempt to trace its owner.

The battered exercise book was found by a couple in Queenstown, New Zealand, inside a campervan they rented.

Campervan company Mighty Cars and Campers have released photographs of the Warwick 1B4 red exercise book in the hope someone will recognise it.

A description on the front of the book reads ‘Diary of experiences and training 1999’ and the writer appears to have neat joined-up handwriting.

Only a few details of the owner have emerged, including the fact he is a keen Manchester United supporter.

The writer’s birthday is on April 12, he has been travelling for 22 and a half months and he bedded a fellow traveller from Seattle called Kim.

Some of the extracts include details of his travels through New Zealand, Thailand and Nepal.

According to an entry in the diary the Reds fan was set to leave New Zealand on March 24, 1999, and travel to Bangkok.

He then caught a night bus to Chiang Mai and spent several days in Thailand before travelling out to Kathmandu.

He also wrote about watching Manchester United getting through to the 1999 Champions League final for the first time since 1968.

The diary reads: “Found out United through to the final of European cup - p*ss up with the lads in the pm, dancing etc.”

Olivia Bellini, communications coordinator for Tourism Holdings Limited, the parent company which owns Mighty Cars and Campers, said: “We’d love to return the journal to its owner and find out more about his travels around New Zealand as I am sure he’ll have a lot of great stories to share.”

So who is it?

This is what we know about the mystery traveller:

He supported Manchester United

His birthday is on April 12

He had been travelling for 22 and a half months

He was a fitness fanatic, and wrote about his exercise regime in detail

He bedded a fellow traveller from Seattle named Kim

Family described as ‘Mum, Daniel, Edward, Sarah and Nick’

An excerpt from the diary:

On his night of passion, he wrote: “Bus into Christchurch. 5 1/4m run (Hagley Park). Spend eve with Kim from Seattle. Lovely girl. One thing led to another and ended up going to bed with her. Stayed at her B&B.

“Unfortunately had 7am bus to catch from my backpacker several kms away so left warm bed and woman shortly after 5. Jogged along dark streets and made bus.”

(Image: Matthias Klappenbach/Wikimedia)

And according to the Man U fan’s diary, the mystery Brit departed New Zealand on March 24, 1999, to travel to Bangkok.

He then caught a night bus to Chiang Mai and spent several days in Thailand before jetting out to Kathmandu.

He wrote about celebrating his birthday in the Nepalese mountains, and then returned to Kathmandu and wrote about his beloved Manchester United getting through to the 1999 Champions League final for the first time since 1968.

The diary reads: “Found out United through to the final of European cup - p*ss up with the lads in the pm, dancing etc.”

He then flew back home to Manchester on May 1, saying that he was greeted by “Mum, Daniel, Edward, Sarah and Nick”.

The diary’s final entries indicate that he may have been living in the northern part of England at the time.

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