Maria Amelia Lopez was born on the 23rd of December 1911 in Muxia in the A Coruna region of Spain and she’s a blogger.
She is now hailed as the world’s oldest *non-English speaking* blogger and had been interviewed by different news agencies around the world. Googling “Maria Amelia” will yield around 294,000 results. The first one, of course, is her blog itself — A Mis 95 Anos .
It was her grandson who set-up the blog for her as a birthday present. According to her, this was due to the fact that her grandson is stingy or a cheapskate!
Mi nieto, como es muy cutre, me regalo un blog.
But she is pleased with this present as the blog now serves as her time portal and a some kind of history records. She shares her experiences during the time of Franco’s rule in Spain in the blog. But in general, she has given us all a glimpse of a happy life, recalling how young men were more romantic with their display of affection. Of how people were kinder with words back then.
Photo linked from Maria Amelia’s blog
I really recommend that you go and read her blog (eventhough latest posts seems to present links from all the media attention she received of late) but it is in Spanish. Anyhow, I still would urge you to go and take a peek.
Well done, granny!
* – added on 06 Nov 2007 after a valid comment received from Eric Shackle
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Too bad I do not understand Spanish Charl! Pero, I will check it out.
Greetings from Sydney, Australia.
You may like to know that Olive Riley, a feisty 108-year-old Australian great-great-grandmother, is the world’s oldest blogger. She is probably the world’s oldest YouTuber as well.
Physically frail but mentally alert, Olive raised her three children on her own, survived two world wars , the Great Depression of the 1930s, and worked as a barmaid, an egg sorter, and a station (ranch) cook in many parts of Australia.
Olive’s blog, The Life of Riley, has a huge Internet following. Prepared by her friend, international film maker Mike Rubbo, and based on his interviews with Olive, it attracts hundreds of enthusiastic comments from many countries, and from bloggers of all ages. It’s posted on the Internet at http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/
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Olive’s blog http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/
Olive’sYouTube http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/
Mike Rubbo, film maker (Olive’s helper) http://www.mikerubbo.com/
World’s favourite grandma ftp://ftp.bdb.co.za/olive_riley.pdf
Life begins at 80… on the Internet http://bdb.co.za/shackle
Hi Eric, thanks for that info. After I posted this, I did read about Olive. Apologies for that mis-information. No disrespect intended here. Therefore, I have re-qualified the Maria Amelia’s claim to be “the oldest, non-English speaking blogger.”
Kyels, check out what Eric suggested as that is in English.
ok..charl, how do you picture yourself when you’re 95?
uso pa kaya ang blogging by then? malamang mental telepathy blogging na lang…
Junnie, I am currently finding it hard to picture myself at 95. Even more the kind of technology that we will have by then. Mind you, it won’t be too long till I’m 95, the years fly by so quickly these days! But wouldn’t it be cool to still have this blog up and running when I do reach that age?