Loving it ... is this your idea of the perfect festival? Photograph: Rune Hellestad/Corbis

When it comes to festivals nobody does it better than Britain, it seems. And yes, maybe, half the fun of a festival is months spent obsessively following the weather forecast, then trying to drum up that legendary Blitz spirit as your tent sails away.

However, while the oldest, most cynical festivalgoer surely couldn't find fault with all 450 of this year's UK events, there are other countries that also do the festival thing. If not better, then they're certainly different.

If you prefer to watch your Reggae in the sun, wearing flip-flops not wellies, then none of those 450 UK gems can 100% guarantee that summer vibe. For that, you'd have to head to Jamaica for Sumfest. If you no longer see the hilarity of recreating the dance tent outside the jacket potato stall because everything else in the whole site shut down at midnight, then you could head to Serbia, which Sean Clarke found were far more suited to night owls.

Britain may sometimes feel like the Arctic, yet you'll have to venture much further afield to have the midnight sun providing festival lighting effects. And there's surely nowhere in the UK that can quench a burning desire to see the Swiss kick up their heels to a Guggen band.

And if you do find the perfect festival in a foreign field - or disused mine for that matter - far from Britain's shores then you can add a couple of days either side and turn it into a more relaxed holiday. What festival experiences have you enjoyed overseas that you'd like to see recreated in the UK?