Planning a trip to Europe?

The best advice I can give you, the same I would give our kids; travel light. I mean don't learn the hard way like we did.  You don't need to pack a suite case with 70 pounds of food. They do have it there. Our first trip this is what we did and ended up donating it to the food pantry on base but not before we hauled it to 3 countries with our Eurarail pass. Not fun getting on and off the trains with luggage overload. 

If you're planning a trip and are using mass transit take a backpack and only take the absolute minimum. If we're going for a month I would pick our the oldest underwear and plan on throwing them away before flying home. 5 sets are plenty. Socks too.  Then a nice pair of slacks, two changes of clothes and plan on washing them out.  If you need to purchase something during your trip toss what is worn out to make room fir the new. 

Don't take hair dryers etc as they weigh too much and you can do a lot without it 

Plan ahead, travel light and you will have less stress. By traveling light you won't have to stash your luggage in a terminal locker or at the hotel will call. You will always have everything with you so no backtracking to retrieve it. 

Also forget the luggage on wheels as they soon deteriorate on the pavement and soon become a loss. If you're just going from the airport to you're hotel and back they are wonderful if they have the multidirectional wheels but o. Cement they will be toast in short order. 

We are leaving shortly for a trip to the Virgin Islands so will try to pack light