MEC has good travel bags but as others have said, go light and plan to wash clothes more often.
Best think I recommend people do is load up a bag with everything you think you want to take and then take transit downtown. Walk from one end of downtown to the other, and then walk back and take the bus back home. Now repack with less stuff as you'll probably find you had too much and it got uncomfortable to carry. You will be carrying your bag some distances in Europe and you will have to schlep it up and down flights of stairs in metro stations and through airports. The less you take the better.
Also visit onebag.com, they have good advice.
Rick Steves also has good bags and good advice: ricksteves.com. I have this bag:
http://travelstore.ricksteves.com/ca...entId=8&id=139 and while I haven't backpacked with it I've been on a few trips with it and it works well. It also seems to be on sale.
Also take clothes you don't care about keeping. You can toss and replace with ones you buy...and Europe has everything we have here and more. Don't just take something because you think you'll need it once or twice. If it turns out you do, you can always buy it there.
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