For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Spar Kalken" (22 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car), "Proxy Overmere" (3 minutes by car), "Louis Delhaize Wichelen" (6 minutes by car).
You can access these bus lines: De Lijn - 37 - Wetteren - Kalken - Overmere - Lokeren, De Lijn - 36 - S-M-Leerne/De Pinte-Latem-Gent-Zele, De Lijn - 130 - Belbus Laarne - Wetteren - Wichelen with a stand 1 minute’ walk away.
You can find a close high school: "Sint-Jozefinstituut", in fewer than 10 minutes by car. Pieternel is the most convieniently located nursery: just 5 minutes away by bike. There is a nearby preschool and elementary school: "Vrije Basisschool - St-Jozef", 4 minutes away by bike.
It takes about 39 minutes to reach Brussels with your car. In 37 minutes you can reach Antwerp. Ghent is only 22 minutes away by car. Only 20 minutes are needed to reach Aalst with your car.
You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Kalken" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 6 minutes away by bike. Do you have an electric car or plan to have one? The nearest charging station ("Zeshoek Wetteren") is only 10 minutes’ drive away. A SNCB station ("Schellebelle") is located 26 minutes away by bike, or 11 minutes by car. The A14 / E17 (Antwerpen - Sint-Niklaas - Gent - Kortrijk - (Lille, France)) motorway is reachable in 7 minutes.
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