Turkey in Schöneberg

Lots of my neighbours are from Turkey, in my street more than half of them. Almost all the bakeries and fruit shops are owned by turkish people, and quite a few stores selling wedding dresses, lamps, you name it, they got it. Not to forget the restaurants and döner places selling delicious dishes to reasonable prices.
Kreuzberg and Neukölln are known around the world as famous places for turkish people to live in Berlin, you almost feel like being in Istanbul when you walk around there, with all the signs in turkish, not in german. But Schöneberg is catching up fast. Have a look at the sign I saw in front of a new restaurant at Akazienstraße!
I didn't know before the turkish word for potato was almost the same as in suebian: "krombirre", "grundbirne" = earth pear! In northern Germany we call it Erdapfel = earth apple. And it seems to be a favourite dish in Turkey sold at special shops, like Otantik Kumpir. You live and learn...
What I did on sunday? Meet Heike and Andreas from Stuttgart at the main station, sitting in the bavarian restaurant, chatting the hours away. And I met Fernande from Finland (Hämeenlinna - I was there in July 2006) in Spandau. We surfed Berlin a bit later, had great food in my favourite indian restaurant "Rani", and some mulled wine at "Leuchtturm". She's from Düsseldorf, like me. It's a small world!