Check out the photo gallery that accompanies a feature in the September 2013 issue of PassageMaker, headlined “Cruising With Columbo.” Its about a canal trip in the French Burgundy region, which provided some surprising insight into French culture and character.

It turns out Peter Falk had just died, and his death made the cover of the biggest magazine in the country, Paris Match. Columbo’s passing would shadow us as we made our way through the rural countryside.