Hermione Gee traveled for Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) to Guantanamo Bay to report about the prison. Read her weblogs…

1- Holiday in Guantanamo

Back in the bygone year of 1980, when punk still had the power to shock and South East Asia was a war torn mess, The Dead Kennedys released their second single, Holiday in Cambodia.

In 2010, a holiday in Guantanamo is as absurd a notion as a holiday in Cambodia would have been in 1980. But that's where the similarity ends. For those of us lucky enough to be on the right side of the cell door, it's not dangerous or devastated.

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2- Welcome to Guantanamo

Florida International Airport has its very own platform 3 and 3/4s, only instead of taking wizards to Hogwarts, it takes military personnel, contractors and the occasional journalist to the Guantanamo Bay naval base.

When I checked in for my flight I was expecting ultra high security, but it's all very casual. No boarding card, just a little scrap of paper with the words "Gate J1" on it. But check the departure screens and J1 isn't listed. And no one's really sure what time the plane leaves. "It should be arriving about 5, so we'll be able to leave around 5.15. Come back in half an hour." Half an hour later: "It's not here yet. Come back. Don't worry, we won't leave without you."

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3- Rockin' in Fidel's back yard

"No news is good news" isn't an expression that applies to journalists. For us, bad news is often good news and, sometimes, good news is bad news. Like today. The Red Cross is visiting Guantanamo this week and it's messing with my schedule. An interview with the Deputy Joint Task Force commander is cancelled, and our tour of Camp 4 - where the most well-behaved detainees are held - is curtailed. We can't get in to see the recreation area where they pray, play soccer and generally hang out because the Red Cross has priority. That's how it should be, of course, but from a purely selfish point of view it's frustrating.

But all is not lost. We do get to visit the library and hospital at Camp 4. Both are small but impressive. The library houses thousands of books, magazines and DVDs in 18 languages - Arabic, Pashtu, Russian, English, Farsi, Somali, French, German, Spanish, Uzbek, Urdu ... you name it. Detainees request the books they want and the books are taken to them. If the library doesn't have a book someone wants, they'll order it, provided it doesn't contain explicit sex or violence. And what do the men at Guantanamo like to read? When it comes to magazines, it's "sports and cars, nothing else - like regular guys,"

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