Sarah-Kate

About me

As a passionate Spanish-American bilingual, with me you get the best in North American service standards BUT you also get a local totally loyal to Valencia and Spain.

American born, I was brought up traveling a lot when I was young due to my parents' work, and was fortunate enough to have become bilingual in Spanish and English at a young age. Even at age 10, I found myself in the front of a van helping my mother with her work, as we described the landscape and translated together. Being a guide is like a family legacy!

I went to the demanding Bates College, in Maine back in the US and in college I continued travelling on great programs and studied in Ireland, Germany and China and picked up a couple of other languages. 5 days after I graduated, I came to Spain, to Madrid first, to teach English. I thought I would stay for a few months… But that was in 1999. I really and truly did fall in love with the city of Valencia itself, BEFORE I fell in love with my Valenciano husband.

I have worked as a tour guide throughout Spain and France through a very high-end educational tour company, with both adults and teens for the last 10 years. So I really do enjoy all ages and family groups as well. I have 3 small trilingual children myself now, so naturally am trying to not go on the road as much.

Although I was not born here, I have a passion and a knowledge about this country and the city that I live, that not every native born has- they may just take it for granted. I get so passionate and excited about being on the very grounds of where the Romans were 2000 years ago, especially considering that I come from a country with a very young written history. On every street corner, there is something I could just stop to marvel at, and I think that is why I still love living here.