The best time for herping is spring, but what if you cant help it and you want to do it all the time, then you put in some extra effort and do it in Summer.
This summer we (me and my girl and 2 children) went to Sardinia, Corsica and we did not waste the route towards and from the destinations.
Thanks to my girl I got many chances to look around, she probably lets me do my thing, otherwise I will be a very sad man....
And Thanks to Jeroen S. and Wouter B. I was able to find almost everything where I was looking for, but not only known locations where visited, almost every stop we did was enough to find several herps.
In the french Alps we met with my parents and spend 1 day ending with a very well filled BBQ...
That night I drove to Italy and the next day I found 9 Salamandra Lanzai and some Rana temporaria.
The next stop was in the Ligurian mountains were some Bombina's had a 'home', their neighbours were Salamandra salamandra and Rana italica.
Next thing was going to Sardinia, 6 hours on a boat, I loved it, I didnt find anything interesting on the boat...
The next thing was to go to Corsica by boat, this island is great too!!