Hello everyone! Today's video will be a bit different from the ones that you are already
used to see every week and because for the past weeks we have received many questions about
who i am, where am i from, and so on. We would like to do a video introducing who
is Bery Istanbul Tips. So if you want to get to know us a bit more
then we would like to invite you to watch this video with us.
My real name is Berenice but everyone calls me Bery.
I was born in Mexico, to be exact, in Mexico city but my parents moved when i was very little.
They moved to the north part of Mexico, to Chihuahua which is a border state with Texas.
I've been living in Turkey for the last five years.
Four of those, i have been in Istanbul and my very first year, i was living in a very small
city in the black sea region of Turkey. That city is called Ordu. It's very close to Trabzon.
I moved to Turkey because since i was in middle school i felt fascinated towards
this culture and history. I always said that when i grew up, i would like to experience on my own what
is it like living in Turkey. So as soon as i had the opportunity for that i took into consideration
that idea and i did it. At the beginning i just said, okay, maybe i can go for one year, at the most
one and a half year but at the end i ended up staying here. Which by the way i love.
Here in istanbul i've been working as a full-time spanish teacher.
Basically i'm teaching spanish as a second foreign language to turkish children in a private school.
About istanbul what i love the most is probably that here especially in this
city, we can feel and breathe the mixtures of cultures in one same place which to me
that is something fascinating. It's a bit difficult finding in some other
cities or even countries but here istanbul to me it's a very special and important place.
i like mostly everything of course there are those little things that
anyone could feel like a bit "okay, i don't like these things" probably the only thing
that i don't like is how people drive and not just in istanbul, it's in all Turkey. This is why
i don't feel very good at driving here in istanbul. I'm just afraid from other drivers.
I just need to take my time but i will say that one that's the thing i don't like about istanbul.
I married in April of 2018 and i'm married to a Turkish.
Behind each one of the videos that you have seen in our channel
basically we are only two people. As you already know it's myself, Bery and of course my husband.
He's been in charge of filming, editing, structuring and all the technical duties.
We came up with the idea of creating our channel because as well my husband and i we are
travel lovers. Together we have traveled to about 15 countries until now and for us also
we love traveling on our own. We love planning everything and doing our own research on the
places, where to eat, everything and to us has been a bit difficult finding like good and concrete
information about the cities or countries we have visited. So, for that reason, we decided that why not
opening a channel here in Turkey especially istanbul, where we live. There are many travelers
and tourists coming to this city. So that's how we decided, let's open a channel about istanbul.
We opened our channel in July of 2019 and the story behind our very first video is very funny.
Basically it was the day when my brother and my sister-in-law were coming from Mexico to Istanbul
to visit us. Of course my husband and i we didn't have any equipment, we didn't have any microphone
and we had no idea that day we were going to film our very first video for our channel. We were
already at the airport waiting for them and he suddenly came up with the idea. Why don't we do
our first video of "How to go from the new airport to the city center" Then i said okay, why not?
We just tried to do our best, we tried to improve with the equipment we had, with no microphone and if you
are curious about what our first video looks like then we will leave the link here so you can see it
There is a big difference and hopefully you will enjoy it as well. It has a lot of good information.
We do not do videos full time because as i previously mentioned you, i work full time
as a spanish teacher. For that reason we are doing videos only during the weekends
when basically we have a bit more time.
Many people also have asked us if filming videos has been easy.
and i will answer through our personal experience and i will say that no, it is not easy.
The main reason is because my husband and i, we both have our full-time jobs from monday to friday.
We basically only have weekends for going to film and then editing everything and structuring.
Sometimes we are very tight in time and we have a deadline to publish them as well on Youtube
because we want to bring you the best videos with tips and everything every week. Sometimes, i mean
it takes a lot of work, a lot of effort and for example in your case, you see the final
result which is a video of 8 to 10 minutes, maybe 12 minutes but behind those 10 minutes, there is
a work that took us maybe four to five days. So if it has been easy, no, but we really love it.
We enjoy it and this is a big passion for us and to bring you the best recommendations about istanbul.
As a camera we are using the gopro hero 7 black. Basically you don't need
super expensive equipment or the best camera to start filming your videos in case you
want to start opening your youtube channel. Even i think, in our first two or three videos,
we were using my old iphone 6s plus and you can see a big difference. As a program
for editing, my husband is using Adobe Premiere Pro. That one also, you don't need
to know from the very beginning how to use it or how the program works. He's been basically
buying courses online or also he's following other channels on Youtube where they are teaching how to
use and doing those effects and everything. About editing so also you can find everything there.
Basically having a good video is not about the camera, if it's expensive or not.
It's about the filming and the editing. If you have those two things good, you're ready to go.
Many of you already know that every week we share videos about Turkey and mainly Istanbul
where we live but to those who are new to our channel, first of all i would love to welcome you
and we truly hope you enjoy our content here. You will find everything about this beautiful
country and this city where we are giving you and providing you the best recommendations and advices
on what to visit, how to go from place to place, about the ticket fees and so on.
So basically, if you want to keep discovering about this beautiful city
then we invite you to subscribe to our channel. So that was it for today's video. Hopefully you
have enjoyed it and if you have more questions about myself, about our channel,
even about the equipment or anything about our videos, don't forget that you can also
comment below and we will try to reply you as soon as possible. Thanks a lot for watching. Bye.