Tidal City

Into Cambridge today. Checking into the hotel and sleeping means that we enter the city at five. It's a weird time in cities, a bit deserted after the shift of city workers goes home and before the city entertainment and thrill seekers arrive. Everyone in the restaurant is in a relaxed post work, pre party mood. It may be a twenty four hour city but that doesn't mean it's continuous, there's a kind of tidal flow.
I noticed the churches were for prayer services to catch the passing flotsam like nets on the seashore.
One annoyance why do english hotels charge so much for internet access, in other places I've visited it's free.