No signs of the fog lifting...
For reference purposes.
Unfortunately, there were often too many visitors around to get photos without someone being in the picture.
No pictures of the inside... except at the very end of the tour when people were in through a doorway to photograph The Grand Ballroom.
The Grand Ballroom of Dolmabahce Palace. The biggest chandelier in Europe.
Probably the most expensive hotel in Istanbul.
There are a fair amount of stray dogs about Istanbul. Here, the security guard wasn't troubled by the dogs, nor did the dogs have much fear of the guard.