Dark weekend

Liisa and I went to Saaremaa this friday with her dad and his girlfriend. The one big theme of the weekend was darkness. Last week the clocks went back 1 hour which means that it started getting dark by 5pm or so. That's not the worst of it though, it is currently getting darker by about 30 minutes a week right now. Which means daylight is in short supply. For some reason this winter seems a lot worse than last winter?