19/11/2021
A teashop proprietor from Kochi acclaimed for visiting the world alongside his better half is no more.
Kerala tea vendor, who became popular voyager with a spouse, dies
Vijayan was 71 years of age. He died in Kochi on Friday morning. Vijayan and his significant other, Mohana, ran the Sri Balaji Coffee House at Kochi's Gandhinagar region.
The old couple, in spite of hailing from a modest foundation, used to go all throughout the planet with pay from the teashop. In 16 years, the couple had visited almost 30 nations. Their excursions pulled in the consideration of plebeians, VIPs and vloggers.
In 2019, industrialist Anand Mahindra supported their visit to Australia in the wake of finding out with regards to the couple from a YouTube video by blogger Drew Binsky.
Vijayan and Mohana had continued their globetrotting, hindered by the pandemic, in late October with a visit to Russia.Incidentally, Vijayan had told a tourism publication that the sights of vivid Soviet magazines had drawn in him as a youngster and intrigued him about the sights of unfamiliar terrains. In 2019, he told THE WEEK, "My next greatest desire is to visit Russia and spots like Japan—which were once the greatest superpowers on the planet."
Vijayan and Mohana had been hitched for a long time. They understood their fantasy about traversing the world with extraordinary energy notwithstanding propelling age and small pay.
The couple used to accomplish basically everything at the teashop alone. The shop serves tea and tidbits. The pair frequently put aside Rs 300 every day to meet the future voyaging costs. Here and there, they benefited advances, and subsequent to getting back from a visit, they reimbursed the advance by taking a stab at the teashop.
