Full write up in the next edition of a&u but highly recommended for getting older children (8+) into the spirit of 2012. Tours set off daily from Bromley-by-Bow tube (district line), cost £9
adults, £5 children and take about an hour and a half. Book online

However, the hands-down best view you can get of the village itself is from the
Olympic shop on the third floor of John Lewis at Westfield Stratford City.
Combine with lunch upstairs at Geronimo Inn, the Cow also at Westfield.