Introduction, a GTO video series, and a question

[DonaldW]

Does she speak Spanish? If not, there are not any children's programs that I am aware of for English speakers here in Guanajuato, Guanajuato. There is simply not a very large English speaking community that lives here. (San Miguel de Allende will be a vastly different story with many programs in English provided to the extremely large expat community living there.)

It's sort of the charm of the city of Guanajuato that it remains a Spanish speaking destination for the most part. And while the city appears to entertain its fair share of tourists, today there is no blatantly obvious "crafted as a tourist magnet infrastructure" that one typically encounters in other tourist destinations. And this is something that both the small community of invading expats as well as the long-time citizens of the community can agree upon.

In the least words to sum up this city, it is a typical Mexico city in so many ways, where normal commerce is the order of the day, and not that much else. And with that you don't have the typical street vendors, balloon and other venders or many at all of the hundreds of tacky (or appealing, depending on the way you look at it) glitter that normally has the tourists packing and filing in.

However, this does not negate from the rich history of the area and for that I would hope your grand daughter could depend on you to supply your knowledge and English presentation of it or that you that you could obtain the services of one of the university professors of history at the many learning centers in the city who could possibly take time to give you an overview as you translated it for your young grand daughter.

Again because GTO GTO is not a tacky tourist area, there are no barkers of basic knowledge walking the street to offer a service of questionable value nor is there any city certification program to guarantee the reliability of anyone you might find on the street claiming to be a historian. In GTO, everyone appears busy working and it often seems that the tourists standing frozen and looking above while blocking the busy streets are just a distraction rather than an object of income to them.

Now with all this said, I am still not confident I answered your question or gave you a response you may be happy with. San Miguel de Allende would have the better English speaking infrastructure. Hearing a tour in English which included a rich and accurate review of the past in Guanajuato city, well that's going to be sort of a long shot.