For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Spar Express Herselt" (2 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car), "Ad Herselt" (3 minutes by car), "Aldi Herselt" (4 minutes by car).
Thanks to the "Cambio - Westmeerbeek" station, you can rent a car when you need one, in fewer than 29 minutes with your bike. To reach A13 / E313 (Antwerpen - Hasselt - Liège) you only need 14 minutes and A2 / E314 (Leuven - Diest - Genk - Maasmechelen) is reachable in 15 minutes. The nearest train station is "Testelt": reachable in 8 minutes by car, or 58 minutes by public transport. Do you have an electric car or plan to have one? The nearest charging station ("Vrijetijdscentrum "de Mixx"") is only 4 minutes’ drive away.
It takes about 47 minutes to reach Brussels with your car. Antwerp is 40 minutes away by car. In just 29 minutes by car you can reach Leuven. In 39 minutes you can reach Mechelen.
There are multiple bus lines close by: De Lijn - 492 - Turnhout-Geel-Tongerlo-Westerlo-Blauberg-Aarschot, De Lijn - 944 - Belbus Westerlo-Herselt-Hulshout, De Lijn - 491 - Geel - Westerlo - Blauberg - Aarschot with a stop reachable in fewer than 3 minutes as a pedestrian.
If you are looking for a high school, "Sint-Lambertus 4" it is 8 minutes away by car. You can find a close preschool and elementary school: "Vrije Basisschool - De Graankorrel", 1 minute away by car. You can find a close nursery: "Het Honingbeertje", in fewer than 4 minutes by car.
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