Mike Higgins, 61, and wife Janet, 65, took 148 days to walk from their home in rural Shropshire to an apartment they owned in Lake Garda, Ponte Caffaro in Italy.
The couple walked through four countries and clambered up to a height of 20,319 feet when they crossed the Swiss Alps, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
Former council worker Mike and Janet, a retired secondary school teacher, made the epic trek after joking about it four years ago when their daughter Becky bought them a pedometer, a device that counts each step a person takes.
"The idea started four years ago but it grew some legs two years ago when we thought we ought to do it. We had no experience but thought it would be fun," the couple said.
"It sounds bizarre because it was not a spontaneous idea but a slow evolution. We are not particularly conventional so they were not surprised we wanted to do it," they said.
The pair started from their home in Church Stretton, Shropshire, on March 9 before strolling south-east to Dover where they caught a ferry to Calais.
From there they walked through France into Switzerland and finally into Italy where they ended their walk on August 30.
