herping Southern France

[Paul Lambourne]

Team

A final plea, I am off to the Cannes/Nice area tomorrow for a few days of poor quality tea, but decent cake.. hopefully my girlfriend will allow ,me a few hours herping..I know its late in the year but if anyone can suggest a good site to visit I would be extremely grateful.

Cheers Paul

[Mario Schweiger]

So you are not far away from Grasse, it would be the best chance to make your girlfriend happy with some excelent parfumes
I have no real experience at this region (at low altitudes), but - as far as I remember - good is the Cap d'Antibes for P. muralis and L.- bilineata and, along the road to Grasse (close to the capital of parfumes) you will pass some nice Maccia areas, where you may find Chalcides striatus, lacertids and Malpolon.

Mario

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Speleomantes strinatii is a seasonable goal. I had the stupidity to visit the(?) French mainland site for Euleptes last year in November - a crazy drive with 100 u-turns to reach a cool cliff in what felt like subzero temperatures.

[Christoph Stenger]

Massif des Maures for Testudo. It´s only about 45 mins from Nice.

Edit: Plaine des Maures

[Paul Lambourne]

Chaps,

Thanks for the heads up.. the weather actually looks reasonable ..and if I follow Marios advice re the perfume I may get some extra herping time.. or hero sex.. either way a win win