I remember watching the Perseids meteor shower one August. We had a half-acre garden in our last house, a bit remote with fields beyond it.
No light pollution at all.

I took a blanket out onto the lawn at about 3am and lay on my back in my dressing gown watching the skies. You couldn't predict from which direction each meteor would come, so having the whole sky in front of one's eyes was the best way.

I counted over 60 meteors, it was amazing and weird. Some were fairly small, others quite extraordinarily large. I felt there ought to have been some sounds, like whoosh! or wheeee!

After a short time I was surrounded by all five of our cats staring at me in consternation ("What the hell are you doing, you daft human?"). And saw a fox, two fallow deer, some bats and a few rats as I lay there. It was all 'go' that night!