Time off: Plays master of the house at his stately 19th- century Grand Hotel Quellenhof in the Rhine Valley.

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As the train steamed along the Rhine Valley, the river sparkling in the sunshine, Slovak documentary maker Matej Minac told his story.

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Its journey begins as it departs from the platform at Chur, the oldest town in Switzerland, where it makes a modest start alongside the baby Rhine and continues into the lower part of the Albula valley.

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