Thanks Niels and thanks Bero!
First question: the meaning of the word "few". I think Bero is right. In the common use "few" (in german "wenig", in italian "poco") has a "negative" sense.
The proof of this is a common used italian expression "poco ma buono" or "pochi ma buoni" (= few but good; wenig aber gut) and the presence of "but" (=ma; =aber) is just "the" proof that "few" is not considered a positive connotation.
In case of a bad new, obviously (or strangely!), "few" becomes a positive connotation (two negative connotations = a positive one!)... example... "You have few cancer metastasis"... In this rare case, few is better than many...
P.S. For me Berislav's nitpickery about grammar is an incitement to better understand languages and my knowledge: so, in general, not a bad thing, if it doesn't become a sort of obsession!
Second question: the situla.
I spent many springs in Greece, and searched always the situla, which is one of my favourite snakes. And sometimes I found situla presence (normally already killed specimens) in places where I otherwise would have not spent any time in search of this snake: surroundings of camping places, olive orchards, near villages or hotels, on roads in very dry and bare areas, and so on...
We must say that this findings are not so "objective" in indicating a species presence/density, because is it simply easier for a situla (or another snake) to be found and killed near a road, a village, a hotel or a camping place, than inside a wild mediterranean macchia.
Anyway: from those times on, I always look around villages, hotels, houses and garbage piles...
You write on the left of the picture there is an olive orchard: and what kind of wood is the one on the right of you? Wild and high mediterranean macchia? If so: it's the typical situla habitat...
Another observation.
Your situla was a rather dull/dark specimen.
In Greece I found a much darker specimen, which I could define blackish or even "melanotic"... I've pictures of this, but only on slides!
On the contrary, in Croatia (Krk and Cres islands) I found always brightly coloured specimens, often of a wonderful straw-yellow ground colour. And no striped specimens, which were otherwise rather common in Greece.