Travelling in Eastern Europe has its Virtues

On Sunday night, Julie, who has organized the tour in Romania, Sarah (of Lumii) and I went to Budapest. We have a concert in Oradea, Romania then next night.
Here is what happened on Monday morning.

According to the schedule that Julie has printed and checked many times, the train to Oradea leaves from Negeti station at 6:20 am. We arrive at 5:40, go to the ticket window where we are told that our train does not exist at Negeti station, it leaves from Keleti.
We rush to Keleti station, arriving a 6:08 am with just enough time to be told that our train to Oradea does in fact leave from Negeti, and yes, at 6:20. The very friendly woman at the ticket counter starts to make us a ticket for the 13:15 train which will not help us because we will miss our concert if we take that train. She is so friendly and understands very little of what we try to communicate, so we walk away.
The information desk confirms that there is no train for us. We rush to the bus station where we are told, "Oh, the busses to Romania, we don't know anything about them, you should just check on the platform 17, 18 19."
Julie and I run out there, she asks the driver in English, he puffs his cigarrette and turns away. She asks in Romanian, and he tells us that there is a bus to Oradea sometime in the morning. We should just wait on the platform. He cannot tell us what time.
There is an 8:30 am bus to Oradea. There is no schedule for this bus company that we can find. There is no website. Julie had tried calling the phones of the bus company, but it is a dead line. The bus is a mini-bus, it says "Tour gig" on the side, which means that it really is the perfect bus for us. And the soundtrack. "I've got the power" and then the arabic hit "chabibi" followed by the techno "Blue Danube Waltz." We are on our way to Romania...