It takes about 48 minutes to reach Brussels with your car. In 33 minutes you can reach Antwerp. Leuven is 35 minutes away by car. Only 23 minutes are needed to reach Mechelen with your car.
You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - P. Leopoldlei" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 12 minutes away by bike. Do you have an electric car or plan to have one? The nearest charging station ("Eva Heist Op Den Berg") is only 6 minutes’ drive away. You only need 11 minutes to reach the motorway A13 / E313 (Antwerpen - Hasselt - Liège). The nearest airport is Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) and is reachable by car in 27 minutes. The nearest train station is "Heist-Op-Den-Berg": reachable in 6 minutes by car, or 53 minutes by public transport.
For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Ad Itegem" (4 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car), "Carrefour Market Heist-Op-Den-Berg" (5 minutes by car), "Colruyt Heist-Op-Den-Berg" (7 minutes by car).
Sint-Lambertusinstituut is the most convieniently located high school: just 12 minutes away by bike. If you are looking for a nursery, "Het Toverbos" it is 3 minutes away by car. There is a nearby preschool and elementary school: "Vrije Basisschool - Sint-Guibertus", 1 minute away by bike.
There are multiple bus lines close by: De Lijn - 943 - Belbus Nijlen - Herenthout - Putte - Heist, De Lijn - 297 - Heist-op-den-berg - Lier Zevenbergen with a stop 1 minute away by foot, De Lijn - 511 - Mechelen - Heist-op-den-Berg - Herentals with a stop reachable in fewer than 6 minutes as a pedestrian.
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