We are foreign students who have come to Brighton to improve our English.

We love Brighton and we love going out but getting back home is a problem.

If you want to catch a bus you have to go home early. Walking is not safe because there are so many drunks and beggars around.

The last option is to take a taxi.

On busy nights, it is impossible to get a taxi within an hour. You have to queue - sometimes it is raining and it takes ages.

Ordering is no option because they tell you you have to queue and you have to pay an extra £1.

What is the reason? Are there too few taxis or is the system wrong?

We are both from Rotterdam, one of the busiest cities in Europe.

There, it is no problem to get a taxi after a night out. You can even choose to order it without paying an extra fee or wave a taxi down in the street.

Why should a night out in Holland go well but an evening in Brighton end in misery?

-Emily Gray, Bastiaan Paalman, Rotterdam, Holland