Only 28 minutes are needed to reach Brussels with your car. It takes about 46 minutes to reach Antwerp with your car. In 53 minutes you can reach Ghent. In just 27 minutes by car you can reach Charleroi.
For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Ad Merbraine" (3 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car), "Hypermarché Carrefour Mont St Jean" (9 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car), "Colruyt Waterloo" (14 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car).
There are multiple bus lines close by: TEC Brabant Wallon - 58 - Braine-l'Alleud - Genval, TEC Brabant Wallon - 57 - Braine-l'Alleud - La Hulpe, TEC Brabant Wallon - 39 - Waterloo - Braine-l'Alleud - Ottignies - LLN with a stop reachable in fewer than 4 minutes as a pedestrian.
Do you need to charge an electric car? The nearest charging station ("Chaussée De Charleroi") is just 1 minute away by car. The nearest train station is "Braine-L'Alleud / Eigenbrakel": reachable in 4 minutes by car, or 11 minutes by public transport. For holidays or business, you can reach Brussels Airport in fewer than 20 minutes by car. To reach R0 (Brussels ring) you only need 1 minute and A7 / E19 - E42 (Halle - Nivelles - Mons - (Valenciennes, France)) is reachable in 9 minutes.
You can find a close preschool and elementary school: "Ecole Fondamentale Libre Cardinal Mercier", 1 minute away by car. You can find a close nursery: "Thi Nguyen", in fewer than 1 minute by car. If you are looking for a high school, "Institut D'Enseignement Cardinal Mercier" it is 4 minutes away by car.
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