Gaudi's Long Lost Cousin??

Antone Gaudi used nature's angles and curves and incorporated them into his designs and mosaics that put Barcelona on the map in terms of architectural wow-factor at the turn of the 20th century.
 

...elaborate benches

Gaudi  adorned many of his buildings and sculptures with colored tiles arranged in fantastical patterns. This added another important dimension to his buildings which is so often overlooked by architects, the use of color (not by our architect-friend, Jessie, however).  The combination of wacky design, interesting shaped stonework, and vibrant colors in Gaudi's work give the viewer an awesome visual experience.

...one of our favorites in Barcelona

Why am I talking about Gaudi?  We're in Honduras, right?!  Well, me thinks Gaudi has an unknown cousin, or more realistically, an undiscovered grand-neice or grand-nephew that has been collecting broken pottery and chipping away at ceramic tiles to dream up a mini-Barcelona on the little island of Utila.  

Before traveling to Utila, we had heard about the Jade Seahorse.  Just seeing the pictures that friends had taken of the place, it looked like a Gaudi-inspired tile free-for-all.  Seeing the website, it looked amazing, so we had to check it out for ourselves.  Staying in the hotel was out of the question... for the 4 of us it would have been over $100 a night.  So we thought once we got to the island, we'd walk up the hill and make plans to have dinner there.

After inquiring about the place from several locals, we surmised that the place was no longer open for eats.  We sauntered up in the hot afternoon sun and the place was a bit of a ghost town.  Albeit, an amazing, colorful, dream-like ghost town.  No restaurant was open, but the bar looked like it is functional, but wasn't open at the time.  Along with other interested visitors, we walked around and took in the incredible amount of hours, weeks, and years it must have taken to tap into the inspiration, to dream up the designs and to place each tile, one by one.

Hope you enjoy the pictures... they don't do the place justice...  

Sorry there are not more pictures.  As we were taking pictures, it seemed a shame to take a photo that only looked inferior to the real thing.