For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Proxy Veltem-Beisem" (6 minutes by car), "Carrefour Express Tildonk" (9 minutes by car), "Spar Winksele" (8 minutes by car).
You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Station Veltem" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 41 minutes away by foot. The A2 / E314 (Leuven - Diest - Genk - Maasmechelen) motorway is accessible in 10 minutes and A3 / E25 - E40 - E42 (Brussels - Leuven - Liège - Eupen - (Aachen, Germany)) will take 12 minutes. For holidays or business, you can reach Brussels Airport in fewer than 21 minutes by car. The nearest train station is "Veltem": reachable in 6 minutes by car, or 42 minutes by public transport. Do you have an electric car or plan to have one? The nearest charging station ("D'Ieteren") is only 10 minutes’ drive away.
In 30 minutes you can reach Brussels. Antwerp is 38 minutes away by car. In 59 minutes you can reach Ghent. Charleroi is 59 minutes away by car.
There is a nearby preschool and elementary school: "Go! Basisschool - Spectrum", 10 minutes away by bike. You can find a convienient nursery: "Kiekeboe", 29 minutes away by foot. The closest high school is named "Sint-Angela-Instituut" and is 9 minutes' away by car.
The closest bus lines are De Lijn - 516 - Schoolbus Meerbeek - Erps-Kwerps - Haacht, De Lijn - 511 - Schoolbus Rotselaar - Wijgmaal - Herent - Haacht with a stop 21 minutes away by foot, De Lijn - 285 - Mechelen - Kampenhout - Leuven with a stop reachable in fewer than 29 minutes as a pedestrian.
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