Only 26 minutes are needed to reach Brussels with your car. Antwerp is 42 minutes away by car. It takes about 55 minutes to reach Ghent with your car. In 54 minutes you can reach Charleroi.
For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Ad Holsbeek" (7 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car), "Carrefour Express Wilsele" (14 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car), "Spar Kessel-Lo" (4 minutes by car).
For holidays or business, you can reach Brussels Airport in fewer than 16 minutes by car. The A2 / E314 (Leuven - Diest - Genk - Maasmechelen) motorway is accessible in 1 minute and A3 / E25 - E40 - E42 (Brussels - Leuven - Liège - Eupen - (Aachen, Germany)) will take 11 minutes. Do you have an electric car or plan to have one? The nearest charging station ("Trumpet House") is only 3 minutes’ drive away. Thanks to the "Cambio - Wilsele Maison Communale" station, you can rent a car when you need one, in fewer than 2 minutes with your bike. A SNCB station ("Wijgmaal") is located 10 minutes away by bike, or 4 minutes by car.
You can find a convienient high school: "Middelbare Steinerschool Vlaanderen", 25 minutes away by foot. There is a nearby preschool and elementary school: "Vrije Basisschool De Plein", 4 minutes away by bike. Vrolijke Vrienden is the most convieniently located nursery: just 15 minutes away as a pedestrian.
There are multiple bus lines close by: De Lijn - 513 - Schoolbus Haacht DB - Rotselaar - Leuven, De Lijn - 333 - Leuven Gasthuisberg - Rotselaar - Tremelo, De Lijn - 512 - Schoolbus Leuven - Wezemaal - Haacht Don Bosco with a stop reachable in fewer than 3 minutes as a pedestrian.
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