Brussels is only 29 minutes away by car. Only 23 minutes are needed to reach Antwerp with your car. Ghent is 53 minutes away by car. In 58 minutes you can reach Charleroi.
For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Shop In De Cité" (5 minutes by foot or 3 minutes by car), "Smatch Mechelen" (7 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car), "Carrefour Express Mechelen" (4 minutes by foot or 3 minutes by car).
The closest bus lines are De Lijn - 508 - Snelbus Aartselaar - Rumst - Mechelen, De Lijn - 500 - Antwerpen - Boom - Rumst - Mechelen, De Lijn - 558 - Mechelen - Waver Scholen with a stop reachable in fewer than 5 minutes as a pedestrian.
You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Leermarkt" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 1 minute away by bike. Do you need to charge an electric car? The nearest charging station ("Parking Grote Markt") is just 6 minutes away by car. The motorway A1 / E19 (Brussels - Mechelen - Antwerpen - (Breda, Netherlands)) can be reached in 5 minutes. The nearest airport is Brussels Airport and is reachable by car in 18 minutes. In fewer than 2 minutes, by car, you can be at "Mechelen-Nekkerspoel / Malines-Nekkerspoel" train station. The "Blue-Bike - Malines Veemarkt" station allows you to rent a bike at 6 minutes away by foot.
The nearest high school is called "Go! Busleyden Atheneum-Campus Botaniek" and is 5 minutes' walk away. There is a nearby preschool and elementary school: "Vrije Basisschool - Olv Van De Ham", 2 minutes away by bike. If you are looking for a nursery, "Dol-Fijn" it is 2 minutes away by car.
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