In August last year we made a trip through five European countries in six days. What started with only an attempt to see Salamandra atra was expanded a little bit. Some days were very successful with target species found within a few minutes while other days were very frustrating with almost zero new herps. Paths crowded with atra's enjoying the heavy rain, finding relict tessellata and ammodytes within a few minutes and seeing some regional specialties like Rana latastei, Iberolacerta horvathi and Proteus anguinus were some of the highlights. The Italian Alps and the Croatian Island Krk were more disappointing, probably due to the weather (and our slightly unrealistic itenerary). We ended up with 27 herp species, with also some lifers.
You can read the full trip report here:
https://pantala.jouwweb.nl/trip-reports/europe/eurotrip-august-2019