Maria Amelia Lopez began blogging two and a half years ago when her grandson introduced her to the internet on her 95th birthday.

"Today it's my birthday and my grandson, who is very stingy, gave me a blog," she wrote on her first post on amis95.blogspot.com on December 23, 2006.

Her musings on life in old age, Spanish politics and even international relations quickly earned her followers from across the world and she clocked up more than 1.5 million visitors to her blog.

Writing from her seaside home on the Galician coast, where she was born in 1911, her posts touched on personal health problems, from trips to the doctor to bouts of dizziness, to her opinion on current events and modern day life.