I don't mind the layover in Helsinki. Kinda of a bonus for me and I get to practice speaking Russian again on people other than my neighbors. Getting to Lisbon hasn't been easy in the past. There's one train per day to and from Madrid. Vueling and other inexpensive airlines really don't make it easy either. Barcelona to Lisbon has more options but usually cost a lot more than say Barcelona and someplace higher on the destination food chain I'd rather go. Strangely enough, it was a lot more expensive trying to fly TAP directly from the US to Lisbon. But next to nothing as an add-on from Helsinki. Point being, I was going to have to connect somewhere in Europe anyway. I doesn't matter to me where.
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