My first international session was a few years back in Prague, which is a fantastic city. Sessions are really affordable there and when I realized that I set up a 4-hour double with a couple of reputable Dommes that worked as a team. The email communication was very smooth and gave me the impression that they spoke English pretty well. When I arrived the space was amazing. It was a private apartment, but it was covered top-to-bottom in red leather, even the walls (probably not real). The walls were padded and the equipment was built in and super solid. It was very impressive. The Dommes were gorgeous, but I realized right away that one didn't understand English at all and the other Domme's English was pretty choppy. We had worked out all the details by email and they seem excited to dive in so I didn't worry too much about the language issues. In the end the session was one of my favorites, I found the limited communication exciting. I especially liked that they could conspire about what they were going to do to me in Czech and I had no idea until it happened.

But there was an interesting miscommunication. At one point during the session, one of the Dommes gets out a dog bowl and squats over it and I realize she is about to pee in it and she starts saying something about me having drinking it all up. Golden is not an interest of mine, and I realize that even though I listed golden as a limit in the emails we traded, it's slang and probably didn't translate into Czech correctly. Luckily I wasn't gagged at that moment and could communicate my confusion. But what was interesting is that they were super surprised that golden was a limit for me, given all the other activities they put me through. I guess it's common enough in Prague that even if you don't explicitly list an interest in golden, it can just be assumed that the average masochistic sub will be into it. I chalked it up to an unforeseen cultural difference. In the end, it was pretty funny, but I certainly learned my lesson about making sure all limits are fully understood.

I'd be curious to know other activities that are assumed as "no big deal" interests in one region, that would be seen as more edgy in other regions.