For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Proxy Leest" (18 minutes by foot or 3 minutes by car), "Carrefour Express Oranje Mechelen" (4 minutes by car), "Spar Hombeek" (5 minutes by car).
There are multiple bus lines close by: De Lijn - 4 - Station - Battel - Leest with a stop 6 minutes away by foot, De Lijn - 286 - Boom - Willebroek -Mechelen, De Lijn - 287 - Boom - Willebroek - Heindonk - Mechelen with a stop reachable in fewer than 23 minutes as a pedestrian.
Only 29 minutes are needed to reach Brussels with your car. In just 21 minutes by car you can reach Antwerp. It takes about 51 minutes to reach Ghent with your car. In 31 minutes you can reach Leuven.
The A1 / E19 (Brussels - Mechelen - Antwerpen - (Breda, Netherlands)) motorway is accessible in 3 minutes and A12 (Brussels - Boom - Antwerpen - (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands)) will take 10 minutes. Brussels Airport is 17 minutes’ drive away or reachable by public transport in about 54 minutes. Do you need to charge an electric car? The nearest charging station ("Wayenborgstraat 12") is just 6 minutes away by car. In fewer than 7 minutes, by car, you can be at "Mechelen-Nekkerspoel / Malines-Nekkerspoel" train station. You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Battel" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 18 minutes away by foot.
If you are looking for a nursery, "Juul & Juliette" it is 12 minutes away by foot. There is a nearby preschool and elementary school: "Vrije Basisschool - De Ark", 5 minutes away by bike. The closest high school is named "Provinciale Middenschool" and is 6 minutes' away by car.
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